About Gusto:

• Mission: Grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR.
• Support over 400,000 small businesses.
• Offices in Denver, San Francisco, New York.

Role Summary:

• Position: Senior Staff Software Engineer on Developer Productivity - Async team.
• Focus: Improve developer productivity by enhancing tools and systems for product engineers.
• Emphasis on asynchronous processing to ensure applications are efficient, reliable, scalable.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure supporting background jobs and async communication using Sidekiq and Karafka.

Team Description:

• Aim to improve developer productivity via tools, systems, and organizational processes.
• Hire technical experts with broad engineering impact focus who support colleagues.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Identify and solve inefficiencies in tooling, APIs, feedback mechanisms for product engineers.
• Design, pitch, plan, measure, implement solutions iteratively; use AI tools for large scale code migrations.
• Collaborate with product engineering colleagues to anticipate/address changes.
• Develop/maintain services, abstractions, architecture supporting product engineering.
• Advance Kafka and Sidekiq use for async processing/communication across applications.
• Harden async infrastructure for resilience under heavy loads and varied use cases.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years professional software development experience with impact at scale.
• Systems thinker with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
• Experience with Rails and Ruby including developer tooling for large teams.
• Ability to work with colleagues as customers and partners.
• Active working knowledge and architecture experience with Ruby.
• Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
• Proven track record improving developer productivity via tooling/infrastructure enhancements aided by AI.

Compensation:

• Target cash compensation: $195K-$220K/year (Denver & most remote locations).
• $230K-$260K/year (San Francisco, Seattle & New York).
• Final offer depends on experience/expertise.

Work Location:

• Offices in Denver, San Francisco, New York City; hybrid work expected 2–3 days/week or more depending on role.
• Secure/reliable internet required when working remotely.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

• Gusto is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Does not discriminate based on legally protected characteristics.
• Provides reasonable accommodations during application process.

Additional Notes:

• Personal information handled per Gusto's Applicant Privacy Notice.