Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend) - Employee Experience Engineering New York, NY

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:

You will play a pivotal role in driving the development and execution of our engineering strategy for the Employee Experience team, while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Employee Experience is a new product engineering team built fully out of Rippling’s NYC office. It manages multiple products, including our LMS and Surveys products at Rippling with millions of dollars of annual recurring revenue (ARR).

You will collaborate closely with product management and design teams to drive the roadmap, prioritize development, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions, and driving the continuous improvement of our engineering practices.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and the business to create user-friendly frontend features.
• Produce quality software that is shipped incrementally and continually at a high velocity.
• Have a lot of clear ownership over various parts of the product.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and fellow engineers to plan features to help bring a high-quality product to market.
• Interact with early customers and support them in being successful with the new product.
• Provide thoughtful feedback to your peers, and benefit from strong mentorship yourself.
• Act as a technical leader across the HR Products team.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• You have seen systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Expertise in building complex, distributed services with Python, Golang, or Java.
• Experience with Frontend technologies, React experience preferred.
• Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products.

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

Rippling highly values in-office collaboration. Employees living within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week with those living 30-49.9 miles away expected to be in the office one day a week. Employees living over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles of an office. To enhance team cohesiveness, new employees are asked to work onsite three days a week for their first six months.

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:

135,000 - 236,250 USD per year (US Tier 1)