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Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Agentic Talent Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$189k - $315kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to lead Rippling’s Agentic Talent platform, combining people and AI agents to manage talent workflows. Role focuses on architecture ownership, hands-on development, and mentoring in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build Exceptional Products: Develop scalable, maintainable, high-performance systems that power critical talent products and workflows.
  • Move Fast with Precision: Deliver high-quality capabilities quickly while balancing iteration speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Drive Architecture and Design: Lead architectural decisions across the product lifecycle, from early prototypes through production. Apply systems thinking to build fault-tolerant, highly available, scalable, and extensible systems.
  • Own Operational Excellence: Establish strong standards for observability, reliability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with product managers, designers, AI Platform engineers, and customers to shape the roadmap and turn ambiguous problems into compelling products.
  • Mentor and Lead: Raise the technical bar through design reviews, thoughtful abstractions, engineering best practices, and mentorship across experience levels.
  • Shape the Team: As an early member, directly influence the team’s technical direction, culture, structure, and ways of working.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of full stack software development experience, including designing and operating large-scale systems.
  • Experience with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB; clean abstractions; and event-driven architectures strongly preferred.
  • Front-end: React experience preferred.
  • Strong command of computer science fundamentals and distributed-system design, including asynchronous processing, caching, data modeling, and database scaling.
  • Experience designing extensible services, APIs, or primitives used across multiple products and workflows.
  • A deep interest in customer behavior, product design, and delivering intuitive, polished experiences.
  • A track record of navigating ambiguity, defining technical direction, scoping complex work, reviewing designs, and helping other engineers grow.
  • Comfort operating in fast-moving, unstructured environments and proactively identifying opportunities to improve both the product and how the team builds it.

Skills

Required:PythonDjangoPostgreSQLDistributed systemsAPIs
Nice to have:MongoDBReact

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • Office in-office work policy requiring minimum three days per week in the office for eligible roles
  • Reasonable accommodations available during hiring process (accommodations@rippling.com)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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