Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools
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, AI Developer Tools at Gusto in Canada - Toronto. 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.
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- Architect AI Workflows: Design and implement internal tools and platforms that integrate LLMs into the developer workflow (e.g. automated PR reviews) with a focus on autonomous agentic agents.
- Collaborate & Evangelize: Work closely with builders across the company to understand their pain points and partner with Infrastructure/Platform teams to ensure AI tools are scalable and secure.
- Stay on the Cutting Edge: Actively engage with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and research to ensure our internal tooling remains world-class, along with defining how we incorporate and manage best practices from the industry.
- Build Faster Feedback Loops: Identify bottlenecks in the development lifecycle and apply AI solutions to remove them, from local environment setup to automated testing.
- Ensure Stability: Like any infrastructure role, you will monitor the health of our developer tools, diagnosing issues related to performance, networking, and tool integration.
- 8+ years of software development experience: You are a systems thinker who is comfortable with architectural complexity and delivering production-grade code.
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- Architect AI Workflows: Design and implement internal tools and platforms that integrate LLMs into the developer workflow (e.g. automated PR reviews) with a focus on autonomous agentic agents.
- Collaborate & Evangelize: Work closely with builders across the company to understand their pain points and partner with Infrastructure/Platform teams to ensure AI tools are scalable and secure.
- Stay on the Cutting Edge: Actively engage with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and research to ensure our internal tooling remains world-class, along with defining how we incorporate and manage best practices from the industry.
- Build Faster Feedback Loops: Identify bottlenecks in the development lifecycle and apply AI solutions to remove them, from local environment setup to automated testing.
- Ensure Stability: Like any infrastructure role, you will monitor the health of our developer tools, diagnosing issues related to performance, networking, and tool integration.
- 8+ years of software development experience: You are a systems thinker who is comfortable with architectural complexity and delivering production-grade code.
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- Architect AI Workflows: Design and implement internal tools and platforms that integrate LLMs into the developer workflow (e.g. automated PR reviews) with a focus on autonomous agentic agents.
- Collaborate & Evangelize: Work closely with builders across the company to understand their pain points and partner with Infrastructure/Platform teams to ensure AI tools are scalable and secure.
- Stay on the Cutting Edge: Actively engage with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and research to ensure our internal tooling remains world-class, along with defining how we incorporate and manage best practices from the industry.
- Build Faster Feedback Loops: Identify bottlenecks in the development lifecycle and apply AI solutions to remove them, from local environment setup to automated testing.
- Ensure Stability: Like any infrastructure role, you will monitor the health of our developer tools, diagnosing issues related to performance, networking, and tool integration.
- 8+ years of software development experience: You are a systems thinker who is comfortable with architectural complexity and delivering production-grade code.
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