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.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

About the HRIS Product Team at Rippling : Rippling is rapidly expanding its customer base, supporting larger enterprise customers, and launching new lines of business across its 20+ products, all while scaling globally. At the hear of this ecosystem is Employee Records, a foundational element that powers not only HR products but also integrates seamlessly with every product to deliver a unified, cohesive experience.

The HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) team plays a critical role in managing all aspects of employee data, including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, and transitions. The team's mission is to ensure the correctness and completeness of employee records, which serve as the backbone of Rippling’s ecosystem.

HRIS operates at the forefront of Rippling’s growth, building new products at high velocity to support expansion into new verticals and customer segments while maintaining the integrity of data. As the entry point for any new customer or product integration, the HRIS team is pivotal to delivering Rippling’s vision of a unified platform for modern workforce management.

HRIS Product Verticals

HRIS Flows Experience : Focused on creating simple, intuitive workflows that empower Rippling's customers to manage employee data seamlessly.

HRIS Flows Infrastructure : Provides the scalable backbone for all flow products, prioritizing reliability, data integrity, and performance at scale.

HR Applications : Develops essential tools and interfaces for customers to view, manage, and interact with employee data effectively.

Org Management : Enables the creation and maintenance of company structures tailored to organizations of all sizes and complexities.

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- Go, 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