Staff Software Engineer builds scalable platforms for Workflow Studio, enabling no-code automation of business operations. Requires 7+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and preferred expertise in Python, Golang, React, and AWS.
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Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
About the role
What You'll Do:
Develop high quality software with attention to detail
Ship incrementally and continually at high velocity
Jump into different and new codebases and diagnose issues and problems quickly
Build for systems that scale for a large variety of use cases
Tackle large scaling challenges that involve scaling our capabilities to support 100,000+ employee companies
Work highly cross functionally with engineering leaders across the engineering org
Become the in-house expert on Rippling customers and competition
Qualifications:
7+ years of software engineering experience
Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments
Preferred: experience in building out large scale product infrastructures/platforms
Preferred: experience in our technology stack and similar technologies - Python, Golang, React, MongoDB, Temporal, Kafka, AWS
Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes
Skills
PythonGoReactMongoDBTemporalKafkaAWSDistributed Systems
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