Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

What you will do

• Build & Innovate: Write scalable code while driving the architecture of our most critical products. Play a key role in defining the technical vision and ensuring the quality of the solutions we ship.
• Set the Bar for Engineering Excellence: Set the standards for high-quality software. Help the team move quickly without sacrificing reliability or security, ensuring that Rippling’s products remain fast, efficient, and reliable at scale.
• Lead Design & Architecture: Own and guide the technical design of new features, ensuring they’re both innovative and aligned with the company’s long-term goals. Collaborate with engineers across teams to ensure we’re solving the right problems.
• Mentor & Elevate the Team: Guide and mentor junior engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally. Lead by example in delivering results and foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other teams to prioritize and refine our product roadmap. Use deep technical knowledge to turn customer feedback into robust, high-quality engineering solutions.

What you will need

• Experience: A minimum 7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience using Python, Django, or similar technologies in building production-grade systems.
• Deep Technical Expertise: Strong computer science fundamentals with experience designing and optimizing complex systems that operate at scale. Comfortable solving technical challenges at both the micro and macro levels.
• Product-Oriented Mindset: Understand the product, user experience, and design. Quick to spot opportunities for improvement and take initiative to make those changes.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and are driven to identify and solve big, impactful problems. Ability to adapt and innovate to navigate complex technical and organizational challenges.
• Leadership: Led technical design discussions and collaborated cross-functionally to build robust, scalable systems. Act as a mentor, a collaborator, and a leader who elevates the entire team.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing systems that scale to global legal jurisdictions.
• Experience building auditable and explainable rules engines, including use of LLMs.
• Experience collaborating with data infrastructure teams for large-scale growth.