gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async
At a Glance
- Location
- Denver, CO;San Francisco, CA;New York, NY;Los Angeles, CA;Seattle, WA;Toronto, Ontario, CAN - Remote
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-26T13:49:55-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Medical
Benefits & Perks
rd stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus
Requirements
Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
Deep experience with Ruby and Rails, including developer tooling for large engineering teams.
Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling, infrastructure enhancements, and the strategic use of AI.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we.
Responsibilities
As an 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.
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, utilizing AI tools to perform large scale code migrations.
Collaborate closely with product engineering colleagues to anticipate and address upcoming changes.
Team
The Developer Productivity team is dedicated to elevating the way engineers work at Gusto. We believe that the right tools, systems, and processes can unlock extraordinary impact across the entire engineering organization. Our goal is to equip every builder with the support they need to do their best work, from the platforms they rely on daily to the workflows that keep teams moving efficiently. We treat our fellow engineers as both customers and partners, and we are driven by a deep commitment to lifting each other up and amplifying the craft of software development at scale.