Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing essential services like payroll and HR. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to improve developer productivity by enhancing tools and systems used by product engineers, focusing on asynchronous processing and maintaining infrastructure for background jobs.

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, utilizing LLMs to reduce incident resolution time

Skills

• Successful applicants typically have 10+ years of software development experience
• Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code
• Deep experience with Ruby and Rails, including developer tooling for large engineering teams
• Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners
• Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka
• Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling, infrastructure enhancements, and the strategic use of AI

Benefits

• All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success.
• 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).
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

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