Sr Staff Frontend Engineer, Builder Enablement
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Sr Staff Frontend Engineer, Builder Enablement at Gusto in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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- Build and maintain AI tooling (MCP servers, agent skills, prompts) that enables builders to ship with the design system
- Develop tools to ensure that the quality, performance, and accessibility of Gusto’s reusable components continuously improve
- Develop tools to expand the pool of contributors and quality of contributions to Gusto’s frontend
- Run experiments to test hypotheses about what makes AI-assisted building better
- Shadow builders to understand real workflows and proactively fix blockers
- Partner with designers to build and maintain a system of reusable components, tokens, patterns, and documentation that empowers all of Gusto
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- Build and maintain AI tooling (MCP servers, agent skills, prompts) that enables builders to ship with the design system
- Develop tools to ensure that the quality, performance, and accessibility of Gusto’s reusable components continuously improve
- Develop tools to expand the pool of contributors and quality of contributions to Gusto’s frontend
- Run experiments to test hypotheses about what makes AI-assisted building better
- Shadow builders to understand real workflows and proactively fix blockers
- Partner with designers to build and maintain a system of reusable components, tokens, patterns, and documentation that empowers all of Gusto
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- Build and maintain AI tooling (MCP servers, agent skills, prompts) that enables builders to ship with the design system
- Develop tools to ensure that the quality, performance, and accessibility of Gusto’s reusable components continuously improve
- Develop tools to expand the pool of contributors and quality of contributions to Gusto’s frontend
- Run experiments to test hypotheses about what makes AI-assisted building better
- Shadow builders to understand real workflows and proactively fix blockers
- Partner with designers to build and maintain a system of reusable components, tokens, patterns, and documentation that empowers all of Gusto
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