Gusto · 3 hours ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async
LA Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $230K/yr
12+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. The Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Async team will enhance tools and systems to improve developer productivity, focusing on asynchronous processing and maintaining infrastructure for background jobs and communication.
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Responsibilities
Identify and solve inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers to improve developer productivity
Design, pitch, plan, measure, and implement solutions iteratively, utilizing AI tools to perform large scale code migrations
Collaborate closely with product engineering colleagues to anticipate and address upcoming changes
Develop and maintain services, abstractions, and architecture to support product engineering
Advance the use of Kafka and Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and communication for the growing number of applications at Gusto
Harden the async infrastructure to be resilient in the face of heavy loads across a wide variety of use cases
Qualification
Required
12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale
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
Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements with the assistance of AI
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k)s
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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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
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