Staff Software Engineer, Ruby Infrastructure

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy .

About the Role:

As an Staff Engineer on the Product Infrastructure Ruby/Rails team you work on developer productivity improvements at the core of the language and framework gusto uses for its main applications. You make sure our applications are up-to-date, use an architecture effective at solving our business challenges, and ensure that our build systems run smoothly.

About the Team:

The charter of the Product Infrastructure team at Gusto is Developer Productivity. We strive to improve it through our work on the tools engineers use, the systems we create, and the organizational processes that drive engineering work. We hire technical experts who take a broad view of engineering focused impact and love lifting up their colleagues.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• Seek out and solve for opportunities and inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers today to improve developer productivity
• Ideate solutions, and then pitch, plan, measure, and implement them in an iterative fashion
• Maintain close connection with our product engineering colleagues to see the next change around the corner
• Create leverage for all of product engineering through your work on services, abstractions, and architecture
• Collaborate with our other technical infrastructure engineering teams, product development teams and also data science, operations, product management and design teams to lead and own developing end to end product experiences for complex customer needs from initial planning, execution, to final delivery

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 6+ years of experience with software development and architecture using Ruby/Rails
• Experience and/or interest in building tooling that makes your engineering colleagues successful
• Experience in Ruby, Rails, architecture, developer tooling, asynchronous processing, and agile and lean software development
• Great communicator: We regularly make changes to how product engineers work, and must be able to effectively plan, document, consult, and collaborate with them. The ability to use anecdotes and data to illustrate the impact of your work.

Published 5 days ago • Expires February 16, 2025 15:44

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