Gusto · 1 week ago
Staff Software Engineer, Local Environments Team
Greater Seattle Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling essential services like payroll and HR for over 400,000 small businesses. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Local Environments team, you will enhance the local development experience, ensure environment stability, and implement AI solutions to optimize development processes.
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Responsibilities
Identify opportunities for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and reliability of development environments with a focus on building faster developer feedback loops leveraging emerging AI technologies balanced with established practices and tool chains
Contribute to the development and improvement of internal platforms and tools related to development environments
Work closely with software engineers to understand their pain points and requirements related to local development
Collaborate with other infrastructure and platform teams to ensure seamless integration of development environments with other systems
Proactively monitor and maintain the health and stability of standard development environments
Diagnose and resolve issues related to local setups, including operating system configurations, networking, dependencies, and tooling
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software development experience
Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment — integrating intelligence, automation, and experimentation to increase developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements
Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively
Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code
Experience with Rails and Ruby, including developer tooling for large engineering teams
Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners
Active working knowledge and architecture experience with Ruby
Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)s
Stock equity
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (19)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
Recent News
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