Staff Backend Engineer - Benefits Products

About Rippling

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.


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.


Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B 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.


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About the role:


Join us in revolutionizing the benefits industry by building the first multi-sided Global Benefits Marketplace. Every year, over $5 trillion is spent globally by employers and employees on benefits, ranging from health insurance to retirement savings. These products play a crucial role in guiding families through some of life's most significant decisions.

Despite their importance, the current benefits experience remains outdated, costly, and often confusing. At Rippling, we are transforming this landscape with our innovative, modern marketplace that effortlessly connects brokers, employers, and employees with a wide array of benefits.

Our cutting-edge platform facilitates the discovery, purchase, and utilization of benefits products worldwide. This role involves working within our benefits vertical, which includes our advanced Benefits Platform (featuring recommendations, payments, and a benefits eligibility engine), our rapidly expanding Benefits Marketplace with over 100 partners, and our proprietary Rippling Benefits Products.

If you're excited about the opportunity to shape the future of a vital industry and work on impactful, cutting-edge solutions, we'd love to have you on our team.



 What You'll Do: 

  • Innovate and Lead: Design and develop high-quality software products, driving architectural decisions and overseeing the complete product delivery lifecycle.
  • Tackle Complex Challenges: Work on diverse areas including API design, event modeling, data modeling, data importing, transmission, business logic, and customer-facing features.
  • Collaborate and Execute: Coordinate cross-team collaborations, integrate customer feedback into the product engineering roadmap, and drive successful delivery execution.
  • Mentor and Inspire: Guide and mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for:

  • Extensive Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on building large-scale platforms for web and mobile applications.
  • Technical Expertise: Proven expertise in developing complex, distributed services using languages such as Python, Golang, or Java.
  • Strong Computer Science Foundations: Solid understanding of computer science principles, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Cloud Experience (Bonus): Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms is a plus.
  • Product Ownership: A commitment to owning the product lifecycle and solving real-world problems for our customers.
  • Customer-Centric Mindset: Passionate about working in a product-focused environment with a deep commitment to customer impact.


Additional Information

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 accomodations@rippling.com


Rippling highly values in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living 30-49.9 miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office.  To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months


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 here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

162,000 - 283,500 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)

Engineering

San Francisco, CA

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