Staff Software Engineer - Talent Products

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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About the role:

Talent Management suite of products at Rippling supports the entire employee lifecycle including: recruiting, onboarding, performance, learning management, and the overall employee experience All of these products are fully interconnected and enable Rippling's customers to grow both individuals as well as teams at both small and Enterprise companies.

This engineering role will be responsible for architecting and building the product infrastructure required to connect all these products together. Building a suite of core products and services that enables the next generation of products to integrate and scale. There are challenges across the product teams that range from building for usability to scaling for massive growth and a wide array of engineering requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with both product teams and platform teams to build interconnected and scalable solutions
• Work both within and across product teams to enable them to produce quality software that is shipped incrementally and continually at a high velocity
• Help shape the product infrastructure used by Rippling
• Innovate and Lead: Design and develop high-quality software products, driving architectural decisions and overseeing the complete product delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborate and Execute: Coordinate cross-team collaborations, integrate customer feedback into the product engineering roadmap, and drive successful delivery execution.
• Mentor and Inspire: Guide and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for:

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on building large-scale platforms for web and mobile applications.
• Technical Expertise: Proven expertise in developing complex, distributed services using languages such as Python, Golang, or Java.
• Cloud Experience (Bonus): Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms is a plus.
• Product Ownership: A commitment to owning the product lifecycle and solving real-world problems for our customers.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Passionate about working in a product-focused environment with a deep commitment to customer impact.

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 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 40 mile 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:

224,000 - 315,000 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)