Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) Time Products

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Time and Attendance team part of the Workforce management department. Youll build innovative solutions that enable employees to track the time they spent working and make sure they are paid accordingly!. The products we create have a massive impact on how our customers operate at a global scale. Workforce management products surfaces have the highest QPS of any endpoints at Rippling and were leading the company in terms of scaling our infrastructure and product experiences. Time and attendance ensure employees can report review and submit their entries every day at any time.

Youll be a technical leader in the team building and owning highly available reliable and scalable systems and responsible for the entire lifecycle of critical software. Your role encompasses architectural design hands-on development operational excellence and technical mentorship for Sr and earlier career engineers on a fast-moving team with tremendous impact.

This is a chance to shape the future of a rapidly growing product suite bringing new AI solutions in-product solve complex challenges and help businesses manage their most valuable asset: their people.

• Write Exceptional Code: Build scalable maintainable and high-performance backend systems that power critical workforce management products.
• Move Fast But with Precision: Deliver high-quality features quickly by balancing speed and safety in your code.
• Drive Architecture & Design: Own architectural decisions and guide the full product lifecycle from ideation to production. Utilize systems thinking to design and ship fault tolerant highly available scalable and extendable systems.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers designers and other teams to gather customer feedback and refine the product roadmap.
• Mentor & Lead: Support the growth of senior and junior engineers by sharing your expertise and promoting engineering best practices across the team.
• Shape the Future: As an early member of this team youll have a direct influence on team culture structure and processes.

• Experience: 8 years of backend development experience with expertise in Python Django PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Experience building systems with clean abstractions and event-driven architecture.
• Frontend Knowledge: Experience with React or JavaScript is a plus.
• Technical Expertise: Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals algorithms and system designincluding async patterns caching strategies and database sharding. Comfortable developing scalable and extendable core services used across multiple products.
• Product Focused: Youre not just a coderyou care deeply about the end user product design and delivering an intuitive polished experience.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You thrive in a fast-paced unstructured environment. You proactively identify problems effectively scope and review others work provide strong coaching and lead internal innovation such as building AI tools.

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

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 employees 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 someones compensationincluding a candidates professional background experience and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.