Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

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 HRIS Company Team at Rippling, where you'll play a crucial role in transforming the onboarding and purchasing experience for thousands of businesses. As a fast-growing SaaS company, Rippling is dedicated to addressing key challenges in our current processes, such as the complex and manual nature of new company onboarding, the lack of flexibility in app purchasing, and the absence of trial opportunities for potential customers.

Our mission is to accelerate Rippling’s growth by enhancing the product experience. We aim to provide customers with flexible purchasing options, allowing them to select individual apps or the entire platform, while also creating efficient upgrade paths and trial opportunities. Additionally, we strive to make the onboarding process fast, efficient, and error-free for both new customers and our operations team.

As an engineer on this team, you'll tackle these challenges head-on by developing self-serve SaaS product trial and sign-up flows, revamping onboarding workflows to reduce manual steps, and building near-real-time data sync systems with third-party HCM systems. Join us to make a significant impact and drive innovation at Rippling.

What You'll Do

• Full-Stack Innovation: Develop and enhance user-facing features, working across the entire stack to deliver exceptional, polished results.
• Collaborative Creation: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other experts to creatively and effectively bring features to life.
• Seamless User Experience: Design impactful, seamless experiences that integrate our UI and API layers, ensuring they function harmoniously.
• Agile Problem Solving: Navigate ambiguity with confidence, making informed decisions to bridge gaps where product details are undefined, and continuously improve based on user feedback.
• Cultivate Excellence: Be an integral part of fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within our product and engineering teams.

What You'll Need

• Extensive Experience: Over 7 years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or similar technologies, with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions.
• Scalability Experience: Familiarity with systems operating at significant technical and organizational scales, demonstrating your capability to manage complex infrastructures.
• Product Intuition: A strong sense of design and user experience, with the ability to quickly identify and implement meaningful improvements.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (especially ES6+), React, HTML/CSS, and robust testing frameworks for unit and integration testing.
• Project Leadership: Experience in successfully shipping complex projects, showcasing your ability to see initiatives through from concept to completion.
• CS Fundamentals: A deep understanding of computer science principles and algorithms, enabling innovative problem-solving and efficient solutions.
• Effective Communication: Strong communication skills that enable you to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders, fostering collaboration and understanding.

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.