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Staff Software Engineer - Documents Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$180k - $315kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on the Documents Platform at Rippling. Own technical roadmap, build reusable document capabilities, design for scale, shape product experiences, and lead across teams to define architecture and platform direction for scalable document-related services and experiences across Rippling.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Technical Roadmap: Drive architecture and technical direction for key areas of the Documents platform.
  • Build Reusable Products: Create shared document capabilities that power experiences across Rippling’s product suite.
  • Design for Scale: Build extensible APIs and systems that support growing document use cases, workflows, and integrations.
  • Shape the Product Experience: Work with our Product partners to deliver intuitive, end-to-end document experiences.
  • Lead Across Teams: Partner with product and engineering teams, influence technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the platform.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership on complex product or platform initiatives.
  • Strong Product & Platform Instincts: You translate ambiguous problems into simple, scalable systems, APIs, and reusable solutions.
  • End-to-End Ownership: You can operate across backend architecture, data models, APIs, and user-facing experiences.
  • Technical Leadership: You lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction, and align teams around complex problems.
  • Strong Engineering Fundamentals: You design reliable, scalable systems and can quickly learn new technologies; Python, TypeScript, and React experience is a plus but not required.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringArchitecture and roadmap ownershipAPI designCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:Python, TypeScript, React

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • salary transparency with location-based ranges
  • in-office collaboration with onsite expectations based on distance
  • reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities
  • overview of pay ranges and location-based tiering
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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