Senior Software Engineer (HRIS)

About the Position

Senior Software Engineer (HRIS)

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 $1.8B+ 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

This role at Financial Integrity Team is a great opportunity to be a key technical leader at Rippling with high visibility and growth opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of Rippling's finance platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to architect scalable systems, enhance existing features, and drive innovation in our product offerings, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable financial services to our customers.

Your role will involve an outstanding blend of business and technical savviness, the ability to look into and build a big-picture vision, and make that vision a reality. This is a high ownership, impact, and visibility role building a product that will directly impact Rippling’s growth.

This role will play a pivotal part in designing, developing, and maintaining robust payment systems while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. If you're passionate about building innovative solutions in the financial technology landscape and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance, secure, and robust solutions.
• Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements, contribute to architectural decisions, and deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Review and share feedback on code, features, technology, architecture, and designs. Drive the standards around code quality and testing across your product.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, best practices, and continuous learning within the team.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, architecture diagrams, and test plans.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the FinTech industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Proven experience in designing and developing scalable, distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
• Preferred experience in our technology stack: Python, Django, MongoDB, AWS.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Preferred experience in a high-performance organization, preferably a tech startup.

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 [email protected]

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.