Senior Software Engineer, Benefits Compliance

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

Join the team that is building the compliance backbone of Rippling’s benefits ecosystem—the infrastructure that translates complex regulations into reliable, automated systems. These systems ensure our customers remain compliant while keeping their employees covered, efficiently and seamlessly.

Globally, over $5 trillion is spent annually by employers and employees on various benefits, ranging from health insurance to retirement savings and flexible plans like HSA, FSA, and LSA. These products are crucial in assisting families with some of life’s most significant decisions.

In this role, you will develop mission-critical features, including COBRA administration experiences, an industry-leading ACA filing and reporting system, and more. Our charter continues to expand across the benefits landscape, even on a global scale.

What you will do

• Lead and Innovate: Design and develop high-quality enterprise-grade software products, managing the entire product delivery lifecycle to ensure excellent outcomes, as well as incorporating AI/LLM where applicable, safely.
• Engage in Complex Challenges: Work across diverse technical domains, including API design, event modeling, data modeling, data importing and transmission.
• Technical Leadership: own the full lifecycle of development - from technical discovery and architecture design to implementation, rollout and support.
• Collaborate and Drive Impact: Facilitate cross-team collaborations, effectively integrate customer feedback into the product engineering roadmap, and drive the successful execution and delivery of solutions.

What you will need

• Proven Experience: You have over 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a demonstrated ability to deliver impactful and reliable user-facing products from end to end, preferably with Python, Django, Go, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: Your care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You’re not just going after cool stuff–you understand the balance between craft, speed and the bottom line.
• Adaptability: You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, demonstrating agility and resilience in the face of change.
• Clear Communication: You have excellent skills in communicating complex technical ideas with clarity and precision, enabling effective collaboration and decision-making.

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.

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:

159,000 - 278,250 USD per year (US Tier 1)