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Staff Software Engineer - Core Experience

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY; San Francisco, CA), Remote$189k - $315kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on Core Experience at Rippling, building onboarding flows, self-serve growth infrastructure, and foundational surfaces across multiple products, with end-to-end ownership and emphasis on scalable, reusable backend systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend systems that power Core Experience's highest-leverage surfaces: onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives other product teams rely on
  • Take technical ownership end-to-end, from schema design and API contracts to performance, reliability, and observability in production
  • Work directly with product and design to shape how features get built, not just implement what's handed to you
  • Build for scale and reuse: the systems you design will be consumed by other engineering teams across Rippling, so correctness, documentation, and thoughtful abstraction matter

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering, with a strong track record in backend systems
  • Systems thinking: design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start; trade-offs between consistency and availability
  • Full-stack range: backend-leaning but comfortable owning a feature end-to-end
  • High agency: identify problems, scope solutions, and execute without needing a detailed ticket
  • Platform instinct: design APIs and infrastructure for reuse by others
  • Tech stack: proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and strong SQL/NoSQL data modeling skills

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringAPI design

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations available upon request
  • In-office collaboration emphasis and policy supporting essential in-office presence (3 days/week for office-based employees)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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