Product Infrastructure Engineer
Description For Product Infrastructure Engineer
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.
As an engineer on the Product Infrastructure Ruby/Rails team, you will work on developer productivity improvements at the core of the language and framework Gusto uses for its main applications. You will make sure our applications are up-to-date, use an architecture effective at solving our business challenges, and ensure that our build systems run smoothly.
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. We hire technical experts who take a broad view of engineering focused impact and love lifting up their colleagues.
Key responsibilities include:
- Seeking out and solving opportunities and inefficiencies in tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms
- Ideating, pitching, planning, measuring, and implementing solutions iteratively
- Maintaining close connections with product engineering colleagues
- Creating leverage for product engineering through work on services, abstractions, and architecture
- Collaborating with various teams to lead end-to-end product experiences
We're looking for candidates with:
- 5+ years of experience in software development and architecture
- Interest in building tooling for engineering productivity
- Experience with Ruby, Rails, architecture, developer tooling, and agile methodologies
- Strong communication skills to effectively plan, document, and collaborate
Gusto offers competitive compensation, with cash compensation ranging from $165,000 to $220,000 per year, depending on location. We also provide health insurance, 401(k)s, and other benefits.
Join us in our mission to create a world where work empowers a better life, starting right here at Gusto!
Responsibilities For Product Infrastructure Engineer
- Seek out and solve for opportunities and inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers today to improve developer productivity
- Ideate solutions, and then pitch, plan, measure, and implement them in an iterative fashion
- Maintain close connection with our product engineering colleagues to see the next change around the corner
- Create leverage for all of product engineering through your work on services, abstractions, and architecture
- 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
Requirements For Product Infrastructure Engineer
- 5+ years of experience with software development and architecture
- Experience and/or interest in building tooling that makes your engineering colleagues successful
- Experience and/or interest in Ruby, Rails, architecture, developer tooling, asynchronous processing, and agile and lean software development
- Great communicator: We regularly make changes to how product engineers work, and must be able to effectively plan, document, consult, and collaborate with them. The ability to use anecdotes and data to illustrate the impact of your work.
Benefits For Product Infrastructure Engineer
- Health insurance
- 401(k)s
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