Senior Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform at Gusto, Inc.
Denver
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Jul 27, 2026
Denver
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior iOS engineering role at Gusto focused on architecting and scaling the foundation of the company's iOS app, which serves over 1 million monthly active users. The engineer will own shared mobile services — including push notifications, accessibility, localization, build pipelines, and release processes — while collaborating across product, identity, security, and infrastructure teams. Suits a deeply experienced iOS engineer comfortable with greenfield platform work and cross-functional technical leadership.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 1,400–4,950
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title contains no seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 12+ years overall / 10+ years Swift requirement and platform ownership scope clearly support a Senior classification.
The 12-year figure appears in the title/intro framing ('12+ years of experience') while the body's requirements section states '10 years in Swift and iOS' and 'at least 12 years in mobile software engineering overall' — the overall years minimum is set to 12 to reflect the stricter overall gate.
CI/CD, GraphQL, analytics, and monitoring tools all appear under the 'Bonus points' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
No work location or CBSA is specified in the posting; Gusto is headquartered in San Francisco but the posting does not restrict location, so the CBSA field is left blank and remote is set to true.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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