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Principal Engineer

Rippling

Rippling

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Mar 20, 2023

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 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, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500). Since day one, our Bangalore site has been a critical part of our R&D org, driving the build-out of many of our critical products (ex: Payroll, Global ExPEO, EOR, Billing, etc.) In addition to Product teams across Finance, HR and IT, we have multiple infra, front end and mobile and platform teams. We are looking to grow our 250+ R&D team in BLR with multiple highly empowered, best-in-class, Principal level engineering talent across platform and product roles.

About The Role

We're looking for multiple Senior Staff and Principal engineers across platform and products who can independently drive and take on large scope and critical Rippling projects, which includes, but is not limited to:

  • Owning and delivering on multi year business goals

  • Managing org wide technical commitments against longer term roadmaps

  • Generating advocacy and alignment for their team and teams within their domain across the organization

  • Leading organizational practices and processes to be better

  • Actively informing team design reviews

  • Diving into company high priority projects

What you will do

  • Inform and help define the standards of observability within engineering

  • Ensure your team’s alignment with the future of Rippling Engineering in terms of design and technology choices

  • Drive systemic elimination of tech debt and architectural deficiencies for the architecture

  • Participate and inform your teams design reviews and engineering wide architecture reviews

  • Ensure technical designs written are reviewed and adopt the industry best practices for scalable architecture with pragmatic tradeoffs

  • Frequently act as an incident commander and drive resolution to engineering wide incidents with ease

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical lead or architect roles

  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems, such as high-volume SaaS environments

  • Ideally experience in building out payment infrastructure for companies working at a global scale

  • Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, React, MongoDB, AWS

  • Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them

  • A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization

  • Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes