Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack - Gen AI

Overview Role: Product Engineer Lead 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $180k-$300k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 4+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. What You’ll Do Own core product features end-to-end — from concept and architecture to shipping, iteration, and scaling Architect and build high-performance UIs that render automated hedge recommendations, track open positions, and show real time marketdata Lead the rebuild and evolution of product architecture across the stack—including UI foundations and backend APIs—to enable speed, reliability, and scale Work directly with founders, and customers to define product direction and translate complex risk workflows into intuitive experiences Lead the development of AI-enabled features, integrating LLMs and model-driven insights into mission-critical operator workflows Drive engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and help shape Pillar’s product and technical culture What We are Looking For Product Ownership: You have a proven track record of building products and leading 0 → 1 initiatives Full Stack Experience: A strong background in React/Typescript and familiarity with NextJS, and in building complex, performant UIs. Comfortable working across the stack, including back-end API’s and integrations, but with a bias towards front-end AI-Enabled Produc

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Staff Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Java / Python / React / Typescript What Sets Staff Engineers Apart Staff Engineers at CLEAR operate beyond a single team. They influence technical strategy across multiple products, shape architectural direction, identify opportunities before they become problems, and drive alignment across organizations. They are trusted partners to Engineering and Product leadership, consistently delivering high-impact technical solutions while developing the engineers around them and raising the quality of execution across the organization. What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and

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. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. We're looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join Gusto's HR Experience team. Half the American workforce works at a small business, and most of those businesses can't afford a real HR team. When they hit an HR decision they don't have the expertise for — a termination, a comp change, setting a time-off policy for the first time — they either pay for expensive outside help or guess, even though the right answer depends on rules that vary across 50 states and hundreds of localities. HR Experience is building that expertise directly into Gusto: compliant HR guidance and documentation, built natively for both the employer creating it and the employee receiving it, in a domain where the compliance bar is real — "mostly right" isn't good enough. You'll also help drive the other half of HR Experience's mission: using AI to make Gusto's human HR Partners faster and more effective, so more small businesses can get real HR support without needing to hire their own HR team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll operate across th

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. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About the role Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring — with light oversight. What you'll do • Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack • Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros • Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions • Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features • Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems • Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers What we're looking for • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight • Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django

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. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About the role Owns full-stack features independently — from technical design through implementation, testing, and production monitoring — with light oversight. What you'll do • Design, build, and maintain features for the HRX Engineering (HR Experience) product surface • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code across the stack • Participate in code review, sprint planning, and retros • Partner with product and design to translate requirements into technical solutions • Help monitor and improve the reliability, performance, and quality of shipped features • Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for owned systems • Provide technical guidance and code-review mentorship to less-tenured engineers What we're looking for • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack work • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship features spanning frontend, backend, and data layer with minimal oversight • Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python/Django

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. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer on the Benefits Advisory team, you will be directly accountable for key architectural improvements to Gusto's benefits platform. This is a full-stack role where you will design and build platform capabilities that enable customers to explore, apply for, and maintain their benefits within your product area. Your work will focus on transforming our benefits opportunity, shopping and renewal flows , creating clear system boundaries that enable efficient reuse and increased scalability, allowing the ability to offer a wider variety of products more quickly. You will design services that continue to scale the organization, with an emphasis on enabling novel AI-driven interfaces to deliver a delightful benefits shopping experience. You’ll operate at the intersection of marketing, sales, operations and engineering. If you are passionate about building highly scalable systems that can reason, predict, and personalize to unlock Gusto Benefits’ next phase of sustainable growth, we’d love to have you join our team.