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RipplingRipplingNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer - Workflows Platform

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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