Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Employee Experience
Rippling
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 $1.2B 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
You will drive the development and execution of multiple product features for the Employee Experience team, while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. The Employee Experience team owns a suite of products that enable Rippling customers to onboard, engage, and retain talent. This includes products like Employee Engagement Surveys, Learning Management System, Employee Feed, compliance training, and 90-day check-in products.
The Talent suite of products at Rippling is the main deployment of ML and GenAI at Rippling today. In Q3 this year, the Employee Experience team shipped the first-of-its-kind AI for HR product at Rippling called Talent Signal. It was launched at a major industry conference, HR Tech and continues to be a major focus of the team.
You will collaborate closely with product management and design teams to define the roadmap, prioritize development, and execute, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions, and driving the continuous improvement of our engineering practices.
What you will do
- Work closely with Product Managers, Designers and the business to create products features.
- Produce quality software that is shipped incrementally and continually at a high velocity - help set the long-term technical vision of the team.
- Have a lot of clear ownership over various parts of the product
- Interact with early customers and support them in being successful with the new product
- Provide thoughtful feedback to your peers, and benefit from strong mentorship yourself.
- Work closely with other engineers on the team to develop scalable, fault-tolerant systems
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- You have seen systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Expertise in building distributed services with Python, Golang, or Java
- Experience with Frontend technologies, React experience required
- Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products
- Basic knowledge of ML concepts and data engineering is a plus
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 in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living 30-49.9 miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office. To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months.
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.