Staff Software Engineer

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Role:

• Are you looking to be in a role where you can have a significant impact on the company's growth and success
• Does the prospect of making the most pragmatic technical and business decisions, both of which will drastically shape the future of the business excite you
• Are you someone who takes immense pride in building excellent products for customers that are technically designed for scalability and extensibility, and just work all the time
• Are you excited about leading high performance teams, and rallying them towards a technical vision that drives the company's success

If you answered yes to these, come join us!

We're looking for Staff Software Engineers to lead Rippling's one of the most critical initiatives - PEO (Professional Employer Organization) which enables small to mid-sized businesses to streamline a lot of administrative HR functions—like payroll services, benefits, compliance, and workers compensation, and to provide their employees with access to better, more affordable benefits. This role will report into the Engineering Leader for HR products and is a great opportunity to be a key technical leader at Rippling with high visibility and growth opportunities. You will work directly with product and engineering across various teams to build and scale out critical product lines, leading aspects of development ranging from product features to the infrastructure that will power all your product at scale.

Your role will involve an outstanding blend of business and technical savviness, the ability to look into and build a big-picture vision, and make that vision a reality. This is a high ownership, impact, and visibility role building a product that will directly impact Rippling's growth.

You will:

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity of your team
• Translate high-level business requirements into a software design; communicate the designs to the other developers in the team.
• Review and share feedback on code, features, technology, architecture, and designs. Drive the standards around code quality and testing across your product.
• Provide mentorship junior engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Have exposure to business and technical leadership to strategize what can improve our revenue and our ability to scale rapidly

Qualifications:

• Minimum 12+ years of programming experience
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the duties
• Ideally experience in scaling products 0->1 and 1->100
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, React, MongoDB, AWS
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Infectious passion for solving real customer pain points
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems