Staff Full Stack Engineer (Backend), Performance Management

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

The Performance Management team is responsible for a suite of products that help customers facilitate employee development, engagement and career growth. Our products help teams and orgs set goals, exchange feedback, manage compensation, foster career discussions, and create development plans. Our team works across the tech stack to build new product capabilities with an emphasis on development speed and delivering customer value.

In this role, you will lead the technical design and implementation of product capabilities that will define the future of work, such as LLM drafts of performance reviews based on employee data and advanced compensation planning. You will collaborate closely with product to help drive product vision and strategy. You will drive long-term architecture decisions and nurture an environment of growth for ambitious engineers.

What you will do

• 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 engineers on the team, fostering a culture of growth and mentorship across the team
• Define the long-term technical strategy to sustainably maintain our products as we grow and scale - acting as a technical leader across the team and org 
• Have a lot of clear ownership over various parts of the product. Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and fellow engineers to plan features to help bring a high quality product to market
• Contribute to infrastructure and frameworks used by the larger technical community at Rippling

What you will need

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on building large-scale user facing products 
• 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 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.