Senior Staff Software Engineer - Benefits Products Engineering San Francisco, CA - Rippling

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Benefits Products

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

Every year, employers and employees spend over $5 trillion on benefits globally. From health insurance to saving for retirement, these benefits products guide families through some of the most important and impactful decisions in life.

Despite the significance of these products and the dollars spent, the experience is still painfully antiquated, expensive, and confusing.

Rippling is building the first modern multi-sided marketplace that seamlessly connects brokers, employers, and employees with any benefit. Our platform powers the discovery, purchase, and use of benefits products around the world. Our benefits vertical includes our Benefits Platform (recommendations, payments, and our benefits eligibility engine), our rapidly growing Benefits Marketplace of over 100 partners, and our natively-built Rippling Benefits Products.

The technical challenges we are facing are complex. We need a seasoned technical expert who has built complex platforms and products for global technology companies before. Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a technical leader within the engineering organization.
• Identifying and advocating for projects of high complexity that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and turning them into an actionable plan, and then executing on it with the team.
• Modeling and executing against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to insurance and benefits platforms, country-specific requirements, vendor integrations, and more.
• Crafting a technical vision for a team whose goals are to unlock business outcomes by making it easier to work with Insurance and Benefits platform and data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be expected to dive in deep and emerge with a written plan for execution that represents the collective needs of multiple teams.
• Owning the overall quality, engineering excellence, and technical competence of the Insurance and Benefits product and platform.
• In addition to execution of projects, you will regularly sync up with leaders of other teams on our engineering strategy to ensure that the products being built are truly elevating the organization and enabling us to move the business forward.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• You have seen systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture.
• Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products.
• Expertise building complex, distributed services with Python, Golang, or Java.
• Strong CS knowledge.
• Bonus points if you’ve previously worked with AWS.
• You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers.
• You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40-mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

186,000 - 325,500 USD per year (US Tier 1)