About the Role

We’re looking for great front-end engineers to join the frontend platform team responsible for handling the design systems, frontend CI/CD, and infrastructure. You will be primarily responsible for building and scaling multiple areas of front-end development, working with the platform team. This is a high ownership, impact, and visibility role that will create a step change in Rippling’s growth and technological evolution.

What You Will Do

• Evolve and maintain the design system based on priority business needs and evolving customer use cases

• Craft and build internal frontend tooling and libraries to optimize developer efficiency and increase code reliability and performance.

• Be self-directed and take a lead role on requirements, implementation, and delivery, as well as consulting with adopting teams.

• Engage with the latest technology and industry UI trends to continually evolve and improve the application experience.

• You'll mentor other engineers and participate in reviewing code.

What You Will Need

• 9+ years of experience in front-end engineering roles.

• Strong understanding of JS fundamentals.

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (especially ES6+), React, HTML, and CSS, and unit and integration testing frameworks.

• Knowledge of front-end performance optimization techniques.

• Passion for CI/CD and building tools to deliver impeccable DX.

• Solid experience in architecting web applications that sit on top of complex business logic.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: you thrive in unstructured environments and enjoy identifying and solving big problems.

• Bonus points for any of the following:

  • contributed to or created plugins for tools like Webpack, Rollup, Babel, ESLint

  • working in a micro-frontend environment

  • automating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Webpack, babel, and Node.js

  • working with design systems and/or component libraries

  • experience monitoring, profiling, and optimizing web applications.