What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer - Time Products position at Rippling?
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 $1.4B 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.
We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About The Role
Every year, companies proclaim that their most valuable asset is their people. Yet, they continue to struggle with cumbersome, bespoke time tracking tools that are poorly integrated and challenging for both admins and employees. These inefficiencies waste valuable time and lead to frustrating user experiences.
At Rippling, we're on a mission to revolutionize how businesses manage time with our cutting-edge Time Products. Our solutions are crafted to not only streamline operations but also to give precious time back to our customers, enhancing productivity across the board.
Rippling's seamlessly integrated Time Products empower companies to manage their workforce with unprecedented efficiency, delighting customers and optimizing operations. Our platform is a cornerstone for the hourly workforce, offering unparalleled global time tracking capabilities. With a highly configurable set of policies, our products accommodate every jurisdiction worldwide, meticulously handling time at work, time away, and scheduling through a robust and flexible rules engine.
Our Time Products are the most actively used solutions at Rippling, renowned for their reliability and availability—they never experience downtime or take a day off. Join us in our quest to redefine time management and create exceptional experiences for companies and their employees worldwide.
What You Will Do
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.
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 defined 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:
198,000 - 346,500 USD per year(US Tier 1)
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 $1.4B 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.
We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About The Role
Every year, companies proclaim that their most valuable asset is their people. Yet, they continue to struggle with cumbersome, bespoke time tracking tools that are poorly integrated and challenging for both admins and employees. These inefficiencies waste valuable time and lead to frustrating user experiences.
At Rippling, we're on a mission to revolutionize how businesses manage time with our cutting-edge Time Products. Our solutions are crafted to not only streamline operations but also to give precious time back to our customers, enhancing productivity across the board.
Rippling's seamlessly integrated Time Products empower companies to manage their workforce with unprecedented efficiency, delighting customers and optimizing operations. Our platform is a cornerstone for the hourly workforce, offering unparalleled global time tracking capabilities. With a highly configurable set of policies, our products accommodate every jurisdiction worldwide, meticulously handling time at work, time away, and scheduling through a robust and flexible rules engine.
Our Time Products are the most actively used solutions at Rippling, renowned for their reliability and availability—they never experience downtime or take a day off. Join us in our quest to redefine time management and create exceptional experiences for companies and their employees worldwide.
What You Will Do
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 time tracking, scheduling, 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 time, job and schedule 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 Time Products.
- 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
- 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
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 defined 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:
198,000 - 346,500 USD per year(US Tier 1)
