Senior Software Engineer, Gusto
Async Team
$160-220k
Salary varies by location; + Stock equity
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-220k
Salary varies by location; + Stock equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of Software Development Experience
- 5+ years of experience with Rails and Ruby, including developer tooling for large engineering teams
- Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively
- Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer engineer on the Developer Productivity - Async team, you will work on improving developer productivity by enhancing the tools and systems used by product engineers
- You will focus on asynchronous processing, ensuring that our applications are efficient, reliable, and scalable
- Your work will involve maintaining and improving the infrastructure that supports background jobs and asynchronous communication between our applications using technologies such as Sidekiq and Karafka
- We strive to improve developer productivity 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
- Identify and solve inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers to improve developer productivity
- Design, pitch, plan, measure, and implement solutions iteratively
- Collaborate closely with product engineering colleagues to anticipate and address upcoming changes
- Develop and maintain services, abstractions, and architecture to support product engineering
- Advance the use of Kafka and Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and communication for the growing number of applications at Gusto
- Harden the async infrastructure to be resilient in the face of heavy loads across a wide variety of use cases
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
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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