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.
About the job
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
Python, Go, React, MongoDB, Temporal, Kafka, AWS, Distributed Systems
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