Senior Staff Software Engineer - Workforce Management EngineeringSan Francisco, CA

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Workforce Management

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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About the Role

Every year, companies proclaim that their most valuable asset is their people. Yet, they continue to struggle with cumbersome, bespoke time tracking tools that are poorly integrated and challenging for both admins and employees. These inefficiencies waste valuable time and lead to frustrating user experiences.

At Rippling, we're on a mission to revolutionize how businesses manage time with our cutting-edge Time Products. Our solutions are crafted to not only streamline operations but also to give precious time back to our customers, enhancing productivity across the board.

Rippling's seamlessly integrated Time Products empower companies to manage their workforce with unprecedented efficiency, delighting customers and optimizing operations. Our platform is a cornerstone for the hourly workforce, offering unparalleled global time tracking capabilities. With a highly configurable set of policies, our products accommodate every jurisdiction worldwide, meticulously handling time at work, time away, and scheduling through a robust and flexible rules engine.

Our Time Products are the most actively used solutions at Rippling, renowned for their reliability and availability—they never experience downtime or take a day off. Join us in our quest to redefine time management and create exceptional experiences for companies and their employees worldwide.

What You Will Do

1. Write exceptional code: Build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance backend systems that power critical workforce management products.
2. Move fast, but with precision: Deliver high-quality features quickly by balancing speed and safety in your code.
3. Drive architecture & design: Own architectural decisions and guide the full product lifecycle, from ideation to production. Utilize systems thinking to design and ship fault tolerant highly available, scalable and extendable systems.
4. Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to gather customer feedback and refine the product roadmap.
5. Mentor & lead: Support the growth of engineers of all levels by sharing your expertise and promoting engineering best practices across the org.
6. Shape the future: As an early member of this team, you'll have a direct influence on team culture, structure, and processes.

What You Will Need

• Experience: 10+ years of expertise building customer facing front end experiences across multiple form factors. Experience in building projects with clean abstractions and architecture and managing the full lifecycle of a mobile or web application on multiple platforms.
• Frontend Knowledge: Ideally an expert in React development, otherwise expertise required in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Technical Expertise: Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and system design. You're comfortable developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products and can navigate complex technical challenges.
• Product Focused: You're not just a coder—you care deeply about the end user, product design, and delivering an intuitive, polished experience.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment. You don't just solve problems—you identify them, own them, and create solutions that have a lasting impact.

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 View email address on click.appcast.io.

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.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation–including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

198,000 - 346,500 USD per year (US)