# Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Time Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, React, JavaScript, System Design, Algorithms, Scalable Systems, High Availability Systems, Backend Development, Computer Science Fundamentals
**Posted:** 2025-12-10

> Staff Software Engineer building and owning scalable backend systems for Rippling's high-QPS Time Platform in Workforce Management. Leads architecture, development, operations, and mentors engineers with 8+ years backend experience in Python/Django.

## Job Description

## What you will do
- **Write Exceptional Code**: Build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance backend systems that power critical workforce management products.
- **Move Fast, But with Precision**: Deliver high-quality features quickly by balancing speed and safety in your code.
- **Drive Architecture & Design**: Own architectural decisions and guide the full product lifecycle, from ideation to production. Utilize systems thinking to design and ship fault tolerant highly available, scalable and extendable systems.
- **Collaborate Cross-Functionally**: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to gather customer feedback and refine the product roadmap.
- **Mentor & Lead**: Support the growth of senior and junior engineers by sharing your expertise and promoting engineering best practices across the team.
- **Shape the Future**: As an early member of this team, you’ll have a direct influence on team culture, structure, and processes.

## What you will need
- **Experience**: 8+ years of experience in backend development with expertise in Python, Django, or similar technologies. Experience in building projects with clean abstractions and architecture.
- **Frontend Knowledge**: Experience with React or JavaScript is a plus.
- **Technical Expertise**: Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and system design. You’re comfortable developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products and can navigate complex technical challenges.
- **Product Focused**: You’re not just a coder—you care deeply about the end user, product design, and delivering an intuitive, polished experience.
- **Entrepreneurial Spirit**: You thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment. You don’t just solve problems—you identify them, own them, and create solutions that have a lasting impact.

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