Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gusto
Local Environments Team
$190-250k
Salary dependent on location + Equity
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
Be an early applicant
Automated payroll, benefits & HR platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$190-250k
Salary dependent on location + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where work empowers a better life.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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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