{"uuid":"61392c19-99a4-43d7-bd09-abe82db95532","name":"Staff Software Engineer - Run Managment","description":{"company":"<div><body><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About Rippling</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">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.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">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.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA, </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/careers#:~:text=GLOBAL%20EMPLOYEES-,%241.4B%2B,-RAISED%20TO%20DATE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling has raised $1.4B+</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> 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.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @</span><a href=\"http://www.Rippling.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling.com</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> addresses.</span></p></body></div>","role":"<div><body><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About the role</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Payroll Run Management team is at the heart of Rippling’s global payroll engine, building the foundational systems that ensure employees in over 70+ countries are paid accurately, on time, and with minimal friction. We serve as the central orchestrator within the payroll ecosystem, owning all the critical user-facing interfaces while abstracting away the underlying complexity of payroll systems.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Our mission is to make payroll a delight, not a chore. Payroll is inherently complex - filled with jurisdictional rules, tax regulations, benefits integration, and edge cases across global geographies. But our team works hard to abstract away these complexities, allowing customers to confidently run payroll without needing to become payroll experts in every country where they operate.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As a team, we focus on delivering delightful user experiences, resilient backend systems, and extensible architecture to support a rapidly evolving global product. We tackle hard technical challenges that have massive business impact - powering one of Rippling’s most mission-critical products. If you’re passionate about building well-designed, scalable systems that abstract away complexity for end users, this is the team to be on.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Describe the role and team the candidate will be joining</span></p><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:start;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will do</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead technical architecture</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> for the next generation of our global payroll calculation engine, designing scalable frameworks that support operations across multiple countries.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own the end-to-end delivery</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> of high-impact, complex features, from initial design and technical specifications through to production deployment and monitoring.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Drive the technical roadmap</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> for the Calculations team, identifying and tackling performance bottlenecks, reliability improvements, and architectural refactors.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Take on ambiguous technical challenges</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> (e.g., \"design a system to support any country's tax model\") and turn them into concrete, actionable plans for the team.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exercise expert technical judgment</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> in building scalable, maintainable, and extensible systems, ensuring data integrity across complex and interdependent services.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Raise the engineering bar</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> for the entire organization by mentoring senior and junior engineers, leading in-depth design reviews, and championing best practices for code quality, testing, and observability.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Collaborate across functions</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> with Product Management, HRIS, and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive, platform-wide solutions.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;text-align:start;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What you will need</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">8+ years of professional experience</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> as a software engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership and driving org-wide impact.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Expertise in building large-scale, distributed backend systems</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">. Strong proficiency in Python and Django is highly preferred.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience managing the complete project lifecycle</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">, transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Deep expertise in system architecture</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">, data modeling, and building core services with clean abstractions.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A keen product sense</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> and a passion for advocating for the customer, with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> clearly and precisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse functional teams.</span></li><li style=\"margin:3px 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;\"><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with MongoDB</strong></b><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"> or similar NoSQL databases is a strong plus.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Additional Information</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">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 accommodations@rippling.com</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">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 employee's role.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">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 </span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/pay-transparency\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">here</span></a><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:\"Basel Grotesk\",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><span style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. 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