Staff Frontend Engineer - Web Infra

As a Staff Frontend Engineer at Rippling, you will play a crucial role in leading our web performance charter, focusing on optimizing our web application for superior performance and an exceptional user experience. Your responsibilities will include: - Designing, building, and owning the roadmap for our frontend build and development infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and speed. - Spearheading the architectural design and integration of Webpack Module Federation to enable our micro-frontend strategy at scale. - Radically improving the local development loop by optimizing build times, enhancing hot-reloading, and creating powerful tooling. - Taking full ownership of our web-cli, continuously improving its functionality and developer ergonomics, and publishing telemetry to gather insights on local usage and performance. - Driving initiatives to streamline application bundle delivery, improve build pipeline efficiency, and analyze core vitals impacted by our build process. - Acting as a technical leader and mentor for the team, collaborating with product engineering teams, and guiding them on best practices. You will need: - 10+ years of professional software development experience, focusing on frontend infrastructure, build systems, and developer tooling. - A deep understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js, especially in the context of building CLI tools and build-related scripts. - Proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale, resilient frontend systems while balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic goals. - Expert-level knowledge of build systems, performance tuning, and advanced features like Module Federation. Experience with modern bundlers like Vite or Turbopack is a plus. - Leadership skills with a track record of leading complex technical projects across teams and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Please note that Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees, working in the office at least three days a week is considered an essential function of the role.,