Seek out and solve inefficiencies in the tooling, frameworks, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers to improve developer productivity
Advance Rails and Ruby upgrades across Gusto's core applications, developing automation and AI-assisted tooling to scale this work across a growing number of services
Build and maintain reusable libraries, gems, and patterns that commonize best practices so teams are productive from day one in any service
Steward and improve shared CI tooling, including Danger, Sorbet, RuboCop, database migration checks, and other developer-facing guardrails
Collaborate with product engineering teams as their partner and 'internal customer advocate,' understanding their pain points and shipping solutions iteratively
Contribute to observable standards and scorecards that make the health and maturity of our services visible and actionable
Leverage AI tools (Cursor, Claude, automation agents) as part of your daily workflow and help shape how AI augments developer productivity across the organization

Requirements

10+ years of professional software development experience with solid architecture and systems thinking skills
Deep working knowledge of Ruby on Rails, or equivalent backend experience (Python, Go, TypeScript) with a genuine willingness to go deep on Rails
Experience building developer tooling, shared libraries, or platform infrastructure that serves 10s or 100s of engineers
Comfort working with colleagues as your 'customers,' you're a great communicator who can plan, document, consult, and collaborate effectively on changes that affect how others work
Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, or similar) and enthusiasm for applying AI to scale infrastructure and automation work
Experience with some combination of: type systems (Sorbet/RBS), CI/CD pipelines, code generation, linting/static analysis, or framework upgrades at scale
A tendency toward making things observable, repeatable, and automated, you'd rather build the machine than do it by hand twice.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

RubyRuby on RailsPythonGoTypeScriptCI/CDlintingstatic analysisautomationarchitecture

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationconsultingplanningdocumentationcustomer advocacyproblem-solvingiterative developmentobservabilityautomation mindset