Software Engineer, Platform - HR Product

Rippling People Center Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Data Security Distributed Systems Human Resources Information System (HRIS) Time Tracking Software

Job description

We operate at the critical intersection of HR, compliance, and enterprise software. Our products manage the most sensitive and essential aspects of a company’s relationship with its people, requiring us to solve complex problems related to scale, data security, and multi-product integration., * HRIS (Human Resources Information System): Building the core employee record, organizational structure, and workflows that serve as the single source of truth for all other Rippling products.

  • Time: Developing accurate, scalable, and globally compliant Time & Attendance systems, including clocking, time-off accrual, and scheduling, ensuring employees are paid correctly and legally.
  • Benefits: Creating and maintaining the marketplace and administration tools for health, retirement, and other employee benefits, handling complex enrollment, eligibility, and provider integrations.
  • Talent: Designing products that manage employee growth, performance, and learning, helping companies develop and retain their workforce effectively.

What you will do

  • Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
  • Lead mission critical projects to build and scale core platform capabilities
  • Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt these components to evolve existing products and bring new products to market
  • Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company
  • Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building core product infrastructure and distributed systems that directly support and empower product-facing engineering teams.
  • You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a diverse audience, not just engineers but cross functional groups like product and design, and an amplitude of end users

Benefits & conditions

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. FULL_TIME Organization https://startup.jobs/logos/52876 Rippling https://rippling.com Startups Place

About the company

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.

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