Gusto

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

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3 months ago
Remote, Canada +5 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$189k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve inefficiencies in tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms for product engineers.
  • Design, pitch, plan, measure, and iteratively implement productivity solutions, including large-scale code migrations using AI tools.
  • Collaborate with product engineering teams to anticipate and address upcoming changes.
  • Develop and maintain services, abstractions, and architecture supporting product engineering.
  • Advance Kafka and Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and communication across Gusto applications.
  • Harden asynchronous infrastructure for resilience under heavy loads and use LLMs to reduce incident resolution time.

Requirements

  • Typically 10+ years of software development experience.
  • Strong systems-thinking, communication, and architectural problem-solving abilities.
  • Deep experience with Ruby and Rails, including developer tooling for large engineering teams.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
  • Proven success improving developer productivity through tooling, infrastructure enhancements, and strategic use of AI.
  • Ability to collaborate with colleagues as both customers and partners.

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity in the form of RSUs.
  • Hybrid employees in Denver, San Francisco, and New York work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on role.
  • Remote and non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaRubyRuby on Rails

Categories

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About Gusto

1,001-5,000 employees

Gusto has been growing the small business economy for 15+ years. Not with just great technology, but with heart. We serve 500K+ businesses with payroll, HR, benefits, compliance, and more. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we're the team in their corner. Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses