Rippling · 9 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Core Experience
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
8+ years expRippling is a company that integrates HR, IT, and Finance systems for businesses, enabling them to manage the employee lifecycle in a single platform. The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend systems for the Core Experience team, focusing on onboarding flows and self-serve purchasing, while ensuring reliability and performance in production.
AccountingHuman ResourcesEnterprise SoftwareBookkeeping and PayrollEmployment
Responsibilities
Design and build backend systems that power Core Experience's highest-leverage surfaces: onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives other product teams rely on
Take technical ownership end-to-end, from schema design and API contracts to performance, reliability, and observability in production
Work directly with product and design to shape how features get built, not just implement what's handed to you
Build for scale and reuse: the systems you design will be consumed by other engineering teams across Rippling, so correctness, documentation, and thoughtful abstraction matter
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering, with a strong track record in backend systems
Systems thinking: You design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability, and you know when simple is the right answer and when it isn't
Full-stack range: You're backend-leaning but comfortable owning a feature end-to-end
High agency: You identify the problem before you're asked, scope a solution, and execute. You don't need a well-defined ticket to make progress
Platform instinct: You think about your work as infrastructure others will build on, and you write code and design APIs accordingly
Tech stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and strong data modeling skills across SQL and NoSQL
Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
85%
Represents job field similar to this job
Engineering and Development
Product Management
Accounting and Finance
Management and Executive
Marketing
Customer Service and Support
Sales
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (21)
2025 (83)
2024 (24)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksBedrock,Kleiner Perkins
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Adil Syed
SVP of Corporate Development, IR, & Partnerships. Previously CFO and SVP Global.
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