Staff Software Engineer - Benefits

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 $1.4B+ 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 Benefits Team at Rippling:** Employers and employees spend over $5 trillion annually on benefits globally. These include products like health insurance, retirement savings plans, and various other employee benefits that help families navigate critical life decisions. Despite their importance, the benefits industry still needs to be updated, costly and confusing for users.

Rippling is transforming this landscape by building the first modern multi-sided marketplace that seamlessly connects brokers, employers, and employees with any benefit. Our platform powers the discovery, purchase, and utilisation of benefits products globally, making the experience easier, more affordable, and user-friendly.

Our Benefits Vertical Includes:

**Benefits Platform:** Powers recommendations, payments, and our benefits eligibility engine.

• Benefits Marketplace: Features over 100 partners, providing various benefits options to meet diverse needs.
• Rippling Benefits Products: Natively built products that integrate into the overall platform, enhancing user experience and engagement.

The engineering team behind the Benefits vertical works on innovative, scalable solutions that shape the future of this industry. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex systems, contribute to impactful projects, and help build the future of benefits at Rippling.

**You will:**

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity of your team
• Translate high-level business requirements into a software design; communicate the designs to the other developers in the team.
• Review and share feedback on code, features, technology, architecture, and designs. Drive the standards around code quality and testing across your product.
• Drive the technical roadmap and architecture for the team.
• Provide mentorship junior engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Act as the technical lead for your pod/team and drive large initiatives.
• Have exposure to business and technical leadership to strategize what can improve our revenue and our ability to scale rapidly

**Qualifications:**

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 8+ years of programming experience
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the duties
• Ideally experience in scaling products from 1->100
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, React, MongoDB, AWS and GoLang
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Infectious passion for solving real customer pain points
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems
• Experience in building critical platform pieces that help the product scale quickly.
• Bonus: Experience in marketplace platforms.