Rippling · 5 months ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Benefits
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, helping businesses manage their employee lifecycle efficiently. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives within their distributed engineering organization, focusing on building a modern benefits platform that connects various stakeholders. The role requires a seasoned expert to tackle complex problems, drive projects, and ensure engineering excellence across their benefits product.
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Responsibilities
Acting as a technical leader within the distributed 100+ engineering organization
Identifying and advocating for global projects of high complexity that involve multiple stakeholders across the company
Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and turning them into an actionable plan, and then executing on it with the team
Modeling and executing against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to insurance and benefits platforms, country-specific requirements, vendor-specific constraints, and more
Crafting a technical vision for a team whose goals are to unlock business outcomes by making it easier to work with Insurance and Benefits platform and data
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be expected to dive in deep and emerge with a written plan for execution that represents the collective needs of multiple teams
Owning the overall quality, engineering excellence and technical competence of the Insurance and Benefits product and platform
In addition to execution of projects, you will regularly sync up with leaders of other teams on our engineering strategy to ensure that the products being built are truly elevating the organization and enabling us to move the business forward
Qualification
Required
10+ years of progressive professional experience as a software engineer focused on building global customer facing products
You have seen systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale
Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture
Expertise in developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products
Expertise building complex, distributed services with Python, Golang, or Java
Strong CS knowledge
You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers and advocate for them in leadership discussions and decisions made
You're passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
Preferred
Bonus points if you've previously worked with AWS
Benefits
Competitive salary
Benefits
Equity
Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksFounders Fund
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Adil Syed
CFO
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