Staff Software Engineer Developer Productivity Async
Gusto is a payroll and HR platform that helps small businesses pay domestic and international employees, manage benefits, and automate compliance.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Gusto
Gusto serves small and mid-sized businesses with payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR tools in one platform. Users can run payroll, manage health insurance, hire globally, and pay international contractors in local currency or USDC stablecoins. The platform automates payroll tax filings across multiple states and integrates with tools like QuickBooks and Xero.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You improve developer productivity by building tools, APIs, services, and architecture for asynchronous processing. You advance Kafka and Sidekiq infrastructure, support background jobs and application communication, perform large-scale migrations with AI tools, and harden systems for reliability under heavy loads while reducing incident-resolution time.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Architectural thinking
- Ruby
- Rails
- Developer tooling
- Asynchronous processing
- Sidekiq
- Kafka
- AI tools
- Infrastructure enhancement
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Identify tooling inefficiencies
- Solve tooling inefficiencies
- Improve APIs and feedback mechanisms
- Design solutions
- Plan solutions
- Measure solutions
- Implement solutions iteratively
- Perform large-scale code migrations
- Collaborate with product engineers
- Develop services and abstractions
- Maintain services and abstractions
- Advance Kafka infrastructure
- Advance Sidekiq infrastructure
- Harden asynchronous infrastructure
- Reduce incident-resolution time
Benefits
- equity (RSUs)