# Senior Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, API Design, Data Modeling, Concurrency, Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, Observability, Incident Response, Performance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Workflow Engines, Orchestration, Ai-Assisted Developer Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-02-06

> Leads the architecture and hands-on development of backend and full-stack foundations for Rippling’s UI Platform. The role requires 15+ years building large-scale systems, deep backend expertise, and the ability to drive cross-organizational technical direction without direct authority.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and own foundational UI Platform services, including App Shell, performance frameworks, and configuration-driven systems such as SuperGrid and Flows.
- Define and enforce architectural boundaries and contracts that isolate critical paths from product code and reduce blast radius.
- Establish performance budgets, tooling, and automated enforcement to detect and prevent performance and reliability regressions before production.
- Drive the evolution of configuration-driven platforms that replace bespoke implementations with scalable, reusable foundations.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across UI Platform and influence the broader Platform organization.
- Act as the architectural authority for UI Platform initiatives by setting direction, reviewing designs, and making high-impact technical decisions.
- Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Backend teams to translate ambiguous requirements into durable platform abstractions.

## Requirements
- 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend, distributed, or platform systems.
- Deep programming experience in one or more backend languages such as Golang, Java, or Python.
- Strong backend architecture fundamentals, including API design, data modeling, service boundaries, dependency management, concurrency, performance, reliability, and failure isolation.
- Experience building internal platforms or foundational systems used by multiple engineering teams.
- Experience designing guardrails, validation systems, and automated enforcement mechanisms.
- Strong operational ownership, including observability, debugging, incident response, capacity planning, and production reliability.
- Experience leading complex architectural initiatives and large-scale migrations across multiple teams.
- Ability to influence engineering direction without direct reporting authority.
- Ability to balance hands-on coding and technical execution with architecture, mentorship, and organizational leadership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly through design documents, RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team alignment.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building configuration-driven platforms, workflow engines, orchestration systems, developer platforms, or low-code frameworks.
- Experience owning foundational platform systems adopted by hundreds of engineers or multiple product organizations.
- Experience safely migrating thousands of configurations, workflows, or application instances onto new platforms.
- Experience establishing performance budgets, reliability guardrails, platform governance, and automated architectural enforcement.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted developer tooling for migrations, automated refactoring, invariant validation, or large-scale code review.
- Familiarity with web or mobile application architecture and supporting backend infrastructure.

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