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 $1.4B+ 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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What you will do

As a Staff Engineer on Finance Cloud, you’ll work on some of the most critical and high-leverage systems at Rippling. You’ll:

• Architect and scale backend services that power core employee data and workflows
• Drive large, cross-cutting initiatives — including new product lines and infra evolution
• Translate complex business problems into scalable, well-abstracted software designs
• 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

What you will need

• 10+ years of experience in backend systems or platform engineering
• Proven track record in scaling systems from

  0→1

  and

  1→100

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and high-throughput services
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Bonus: Experience with Python, Django, React, MongoDB, AWS, or Go

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.