{"uuid":"f61f656f-20ec-4a1e-82bd-c5b236e49e4f","name":"Senior Staff Software Engineer","description":{"company":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Based in San Francisco, CA,</span><a href=\"https://www.rippling.com/blog/series-g-fundraising-tender-offer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-173makr-linkStyle\" style=\"color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span><u><span style=\"color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Rippling has raised $1.85B+</span></u></a><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp; from the world’s top investors - including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><i><em style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @rippling.com addresses.</em></i></p>","role":"<meta><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We are looking for a </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Senior Staff Software Engineer</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> with </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">15+ years of software engineering experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> to help lead the design and development of large-scale, mission-critical systems.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate at high technical depth, influence across teams, and drive complex engineering initiatives from early problem definition through architecture, execution, launch, and long-term operational ownership.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The ideal candidate is not only a strong architect, but also someone who remains close to code, understands implementation trade-offs, mentors other engineers, and raises the engineering bar across the organization.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What You Will Do</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own broad, ambiguous, and high-impact technical charters across multiple teams or systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead architecture and technical strategy for critical platform, backend, infrastructure, or product engineering initiatives.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Break down complex technical problems into clear execution plans.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and business stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Make high-quality technical decisions around scale, reliability, performance, latency, availability, observability, and long-term maintainability.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Stay meaningfully hands-on through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, prototyping, and implementation-level decision-making.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Identify technical risks early and drive alignment on durable solutions.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Establish engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and high standards for design, coding, testing, and operations.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Improve system quality through better architecture, operational maturity, incident learnings, and platform-level thinking.</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What You Need to Have</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">15+ years of software engineering experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, product engineering, or systems engineering.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Proven experience operating at </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Senior Staff / Principal / Staff+ technical scope</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Deep hands-on engineering foundation with strong coding, debugging, design, and system-building experience.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong programming ability in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Python, Java, Go, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building and operating large-scale production systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong architecture and system design depth across distributed systems, APIs, databases, data modeling, concurrency, reliability, observability, and performance.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong technical judgment and ability to make trade-offs across speed, quality, scale, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to influence senior engineers, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong mentorship mindset with a track record of raising the technical bar for other engineers.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What Would Be Nice To Have</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience in high-growth, hyper-growth, or product-led technology companies.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building platforms or systems used by multiple internal teams or external customers.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, workflow engines, data platforms, or internal tooling.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, LLM systems, automation platforms, evaluation frameworks, or data-intensive systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with reliability engineering, incident management, observability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with security, compliance, permissions, auditability, or enterprise-grade systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior experience in SaaS, fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, data platforms, or workflow-heavy domains.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to operate as a “builder-leader” — someone who can 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style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">We are looking for a </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Senior Staff Software Engineer</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> with </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">15+ years of software engineering experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> to help lead the design and development of large-scale, mission-critical systems.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can operate at high technical depth, influence across teams, and drive complex engineering initiatives from early problem definition through architecture, execution, launch, and long-term operational ownership.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The ideal candidate is not only a strong architect, but also someone who remains close to code, understands implementation trade-offs, mentors other engineers, and raises the engineering bar across the organization.</span></p><p style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;\"><br></p><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What You Will Do</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Own broad, ambiguous, and high-impact technical charters across multiple teams or systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lead architecture and technical strategy for critical platform, backend, infrastructure, or product engineering initiatives.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Break down complex technical problems into clear execution plans.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and business stakeholders.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Make high-quality technical decisions around scale, reliability, performance, latency, availability, observability, and long-term maintainability.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Stay meaningfully hands-on through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, prototyping, and implementation-level decision-making.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Identify technical risks early and drive alignment on durable solutions.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Establish engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and high standards for design, coding, testing, and operations.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Influence technical direction without relying on formal authority.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Improve system quality through better architecture, operational maturity, incident learnings, and platform-level thinking.</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What You Need to Have</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">15+ years of software engineering experience</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, distributed systems, product engineering, or systems engineering.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Proven experience operating at </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Senior Staff / Principal / Staff+ technical scope</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Deep hands-on engineering foundation with strong coding, debugging, design, and system-building experience.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong programming ability in one or more backend/general-purpose languages such as </span><b><strong style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Python, Java, Go, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#</strong></b><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building and operating large-scale production systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong architecture and system design depth across distributed systems, APIs, databases, data modeling, concurrency, reliability, observability, and performance.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong technical judgment and ability to make trade-offs across speed, quality, scale, reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to influence senior engineers, product leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong mentorship mindset with a track record of raising the technical bar for other engineers.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</span></li></ul><h2 style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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;\">What Would Be Nice To Have</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern=\"discCircleSquare\" data-depth=\"1\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Basel Grotesk&quot;,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=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience in high-growth, hyper-growth, or product-led technology companies.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience building platforms or systems used by multiple internal teams or external customers.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, workflow engines, data platforms, or internal tooling.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, LLM systems, automation platforms, evaluation frameworks, or data-intensive systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with reliability engineering, incident management, observability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Experience with security, compliance, permissions, auditability, or enterprise-grade systems.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Prior experience in SaaS, fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, data platforms, or workflow-heavy domains.</span></li><li style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;--listitem-marker-color:#000000;letter-spacing:0.25px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ability to operate as a “builder-leader” — someone who can define direction, align stakeholders, and still stay close to 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