Software Engineer - Ruby Infrastructure

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:

• 5+ 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.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $165000/yr to $180000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $185000/yr to $210000/yr for San Francisco New York & Seattle. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.