Senior Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Rippling is a company that integrates HR, IT, and Finance into a single platform. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of their platform technologies, focusing on complex distributed systems and optimizing delivery aligned with strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a technical leader within the engineering organization
• Designing and architecting projects of high complexity that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization
• Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and transmuting them into working software
• Working across multiple domains
• Working directly with senior engineering leadership to increase technical quality
• Participating in code and design reviews
• Owning the overall outcome of projects as the technical directly responsible individual

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• 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
• Comfortable at 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
• You're passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
• Bonus points if you've previously worked with AWS