About Gusto
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 400,000 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
[https://gusto.com/about/careers/total-rewards].
About the Role:
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Local Environments
team, you will be a key player in defining, maintaining and enhancing the local
development experience for our software engineering team. You will be
responsible for ensuring environments are consistently working, troubleshooting
issues, streamlining initial setups, and driving improvements to our tooling and
processes. Crucially, you will also be exploring and implementing innovative
ways to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to further optimize our
development environments and accelerate local development. You will collaborate
closely with engineers across various teams to understand their needs and
provide effective solutions, with a forward-thinking approach towards
incorporating intelligent automation.
About the Team:
The Local Environments team, part of the Developer Productivity organization, is
responsible for empowering our software engineers through consistent, reliable,
and delightful local development experiences that maximizes engineering velocity
and minimizes friction to shipping. We understand that a well-functioning local
environment is crucial for productivity, innovation, and overall developer
happiness. We proactively work to ensure environments are stable, easy to set
up, and continuously improved, allowing our engineers to focus on building
amazing software.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Identify opportunities for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance the
efficiency and reliability of development environments with a focus on
building faster developer feedback loops leveraging emerging AI technologies
balanced with established practices and tool chains.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of internal platforms and tools
related to development environments.
- Work closely with software engineers to understand their pain points and
requirements related to local development.
- Collaborate with other infrastructure and platform teams to ensure seamless
integration of development environments with other systems.
- Proactively monitor and maintain the health and stability of standard
development environments.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to local setups, including operating
system configurations, networking, dependencies, and tooling.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 12+ years of software development experience
- 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.
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $190,000/yr to
$210,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $220,000/yr to $250,000/yr in
New York, Seattle & San Francisco Bay Area. 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.
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.
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.
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