Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
Ruby Modularity
$190-205k
+ Stock Equity
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Open for applications
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$190-205k
+ Stock Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of hands-on software development experience
- 5+ years of hands on experience with working on Ruby/, Rails, and with modularization techniques like libraries, packages, and gradual modularization
- Experience refactoring and modularizing monolithic code into distinct, scalable services
- Experience in leading large scope technical projects and driving engineering excellence
- Passionate about creating memorable experiences for customers
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Staff Software Engineer to join our Ruby Modularity team, responsible for continued improvement of the application architecture in some of our most important backend applications
- This team designs, develops, tests, and maintains tools for modularization work and engages in projects that increase and deepen modularity and architectural quality, crucial to Gusto’s continued growth as a product development organization and company
- 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
- Over the past years gusto has been contributing heavily to techniques of gradual modularization and Ruby at Scale
- This role works with those tools and the underlying principles to improve the application architecture of crucial applications in Gusto’s portfolio
- Refactor existing code to remove technical debt
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture
- 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
- Work with Leadership to help set priorities for both short term and long term roadmaps and to create accountability for progress on ongoing work
Our take
For many small businesses, vital administrative tasks such as payroll, taxes, and benefits are manual tasks that take time and energy which many SMB owners don’t have. The three co-founders of Gusto – all coming from small business backgrounds – collaborated on a Fintech company that would handle employee payments, benefits administration, and compliance support specifically for small businesses.
The company may have started slowly, as the founders focused on nailing each individual aspect of Gusto’s operations, but has now skyrocketed to unicorn status with more than 200,000 customers and a multi-billion dollar valuation. In 2021, Gusto began acquiring other companies to strengthen its offering and its position in a competitive market, including two other fintech startups, Ardius and Symmetry.
Through its continued acquisitions and fundraising efforts, the company has carved out a strong position for itself in the space. Although Gusto has found itself impacted by the macroeconomic situation, through the significant effect it has had on its clientele, the company still appears positive for the future after raising funds in 2023 that will see it reach key profitability benchmarks. It continues to consolidate its platform, for example by integrating with OpenComp to grant its users access to the company's Compensation Intelligence Platform.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2022
$55m
SERIES E
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES E
Total funding: $706.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus a variety of mental health resources
- Flexible vacation - Gusties are encouraged to take the time off they need to continue doing great work
- Fertility treatments, parental leave, pregnancy termination, caregiving, gender-affirming surgery, hormone treatments, transgender-inclusive services, and more
- If you work at one of our homebases, enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation — on us
- Celebrate 5 or 10 years at Gusto and take a month off to recharge
- Take advantage of internet, phone, commuter, and wellness stipends each month, along with a WFH stipend and cash for anniversaries
Company values
- Embody a service mindset - Never stop advocating for the needs of others
- Dream big, then make it real - Be ambitious. Show and do, rather than tell and talk
- Be proud of the how - Ensure deep integrity in everything you do
- Embrace an ownership mentality - Take initiative to leave things better than you found them
- Debate then commit - Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Joshua Reeves
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford and went onto co-found Gusto in 2011.
Tomer London
(CPO)Has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Was a Researcher at Intel, and then interned at Bump Technologies. Co-founded Vizmo, a mobile self-service technologies company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
Edward Kim
(Head of Engineering)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Was Senior Project Engineer at Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Lab and then co-founded Picwing, a printed photos company, in 2008. Co-founded Gusto in 2011.
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