Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

Gusto, Inc.Hybrid$195k – $220k1mo ago

In Office Staff WW Software Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer Staff Development Rails Ruby Kafka Sidekiq

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Requirements

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.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $195,000-$220,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$260,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.
2-3 days
Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.
When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

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.