Rippling aims to provide businesses with a unified platform to manage HR, IT, and Finance functions, including workforce scheduling and management. The company is focused on international expansion and scaling its high-impact products to manage hourly employees, which is a key growth lever for ARR.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in backend development with expertise in Python, Django, or similar technologies.
- Frontend Knowledge: Experience with React or JavaScript.
- Technical Expertise: Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and system design. You’re comfortable working with systems at scale 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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 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.
Other
- 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.
- 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.
