Senior Staff Software Engineer - Benefits

• Architect the future: Design a configurable platform that can onboard entirely new benefit types without writing new code-own schemas, validation, pricing logic, and self-serve configuration.
• Think global, build global: Define a unified data model and lead complex migrations (shadowing, dual-writes, safe rollbacks) to deliver a seamless worldwide experience.
• Make customer impact real: Prioritize work that drives adoption, win-rates, and retention-closing feature and integration gaps for SMBs and enterprises alike.
• Supercharge brokers & admins: Build dashboards, alerts, and insights that surface under-used benefits and drive real engagement.
• Be the connector: Align infra, security, compliance, and product stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs clearly; and keep programs on track from kickoff to delivery.
• Innovate & lead: Own architectural decisions, drive full product lifecycle delivery, and set the standard for technical excellence.
• Collaborate & execute: Partner across teams, bring customer feedback into the roadmap, and ship with urgency and impact.
• Mentor & inspire: Uplift teammates, guide junior engineers, and foster a culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and bold thinking.

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, * Deep experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record of building large-scale, high-impact platforms.

• Technical mastery: Expertise in distributed systems and services, ideally using Python, Golang, or Java.
• Cloud fluency (bonus): Experience building on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Ownership mindset: You don’t just write code-you own the problem, the product, and the customer outcome.
• Customer obsession: A passion for product-focused engineering and for solving real, meaningful problems for people.

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: 207,000 - 345,000 USD per year(US)

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., Come help us reinvent one of the largest, most important industries in the world: global employee benefits.

Every year, companies and their people spend over $5 trillion on benefits-from healthcare to retirement savings to life insurance. These products shape some of the most critical decisions in a family’s life. And yet, despite their importance, the experience today is outdated, fragmented, and unnecessarily expensive.

At Rippling, we’re building the first-ever modern, multi-sided Global Benefits Marketplace-a platform that brings together brokers, employers, and employees, making benefits discovery, purchase, and usage effortless and transparent. Our benefits vertical spans:

• Benefits Platform - the core engine powering eligibility, recommendations, payments, and configuration.
• Benefits Marketplace - already 100+ partners strong and growing.
• Rippling-native Products - beautifully built, deeply integrated offerings that set a new standard for experience.

If you want to work on a truly global, high-impact problem and architect a product used by millions, this is it.