Senior Software Engineer – Onboarding, Activation
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-09-15
Listing for:
Jobtailor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-15
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Full Stack Developer, AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Own meaningful slices of the signup-to-activation experience end to end, from data model to UI
- Ship measurable improvements to how quickly and reliably new customers get up and running
- Invent and prototype net-new, 0-to-1 AI-powered onboarding experiences
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data to frame problems, form hypotheses, and validate them with real customers
- Identify where AI removes customer effort and build those experiences into the onboarding flow
- Design modular, reusable onboarding building blocks for new entry points into Gusto
- Provide technical direction through high-quality code, reviews, and mentoring
- Make sharp scoping decisions, ship simple versions, and iterate based on results
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping customer-facing products at scale
- Product-minded engineering approach focused on customer problems and meaningful metrics
- Ability to operate independently across product, design, and data partnerships
- Demonstrated ability to move fast and execute with high quality
- Experience applying AI/LLM capabilities to real product problems
- Habit of using AI tools to work more effectively
- Founder mindset, high ownership, comfort with ambiguity and greenfield problems, and bias toward action and outcomes
- Track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and setting engineering standards
- Strong full-stack fundamentals across front end, back end, and data
Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on building customer-facing products, applying AI/LLM capabilities, and leading technical direction. Emphasizes a product-minded approach, strong full-stack fundamentals, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords- 10+ Years Software Engineering Experience
- AI/LLM Application in Products
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship
- Full-Stack Development
- Product-Minded Engineering Approach
- Software Engineering
- Full-Stack Development
- AI/LLM Capabilities
- Data Modeling
- UI Design
- Code Reviews
- Prototyping
- Customer-Facing Product Development
- Modular Design
- High-Quality Code
- Ownership
- Comfort with Ambiguity
- Bias Toward Action
- Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
- Onboarding Experience
- Customer Activation
- Product Design
- Data Partnerships
- Engineering Standards
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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