Staff Software Engineer, Reporting Platform
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Staff Software Engineer, Reporting Platform at Gusto in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack.
- Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/ MySQL ) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse).
- Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization.
- Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements.
- Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
- Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently.
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- Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack.
- Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/ MySQL ) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse).
- Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization.
- Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements.
- Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
- Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently.
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- Collaboratively design and implement reports and visualizations across Gusto’s product suite in our Ruby on Rails/React-based stack.
- Migrate reports from our legacy infrastructure (Rails/ MySQL ) to our new reporting platform (Rails/Cube/Clickhouse).
- Frequently demonstrate your work to your team and the broader engineering organization.
- Improve the quality of our offerings by participating in support rotations and maintaining a prioritized backlog of technical debt and SRE improvements.
- Lead and mentor fellow engineers in tackling complex technical challenges at scale.
- Prototype, iterate, and launch new features quickly and efficiently.
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