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Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Time Products

Rippling· Workforce management
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA)$189k - $315kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Time and Attendance team within the Workforce management department, delivering scalable backend systems, architectural leadership, and mentoring to engineers while shaping product direction and introducing AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Write Exceptional Code: Build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance backend systems that power critical workforce management products.
  • Move Fast, But with Precision: Deliver high-quality features quickly by balancing speed and safety in your code.
  • Drive Architecture & Design: Own architectural decisions and guide the full product lifecycle, from ideation to production. Utilize systems thinking to design and ship fault tolerant highly available, scalable and extendable systems.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to gather customer feedback and refine the product roadmap.
  • Mentor & Lead: Support the growth of senior and junior engineers by sharing your expertise and promoting engineering best practices across the team.
  • Shape the Future: As an early member of this team, you’ll have a direct influence on team culture, structure, and processes.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of backend development experience with expertise in Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
  • Experience building systems with clean abstractions and event-driven architecture.
  • Frontend Knowledge: Experience with React or JavaScript is a plus.
  • Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and system design—including async patterns, caching strategies, and database sharding.
  • Comfortable developing scalable and extendable core services used across multiple products.
  • Product Focused: You’re not just a coder—you care deeply about the end user, product design, and delivering an intuitive, polished experience.
  • Entrepreneurial Spirit: You thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment. You proactively identify problems, effectively scope and review others' work, provide strong coaching, and lead internal innovation such as building AI tools.

Skills

Required:Backend development (Python)PostgreSQLMongoDBEvent-driven architectureSystem designProduct thinking
Nice to have:React / JavaScript

Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • benefits
  • equity
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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#1 Workforce Management System | HR, IT, Finance

Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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