About the role

The Platform team builds both the product and technology foundations of Rippling. We’re responsible for the data platform, core service framework, permissioning, analytics & reporting, customizable workflows, custom fields, and any other core technologies needed to write backend code at Rippling.

There are two different objectives for the team - to provide the building blocks of Rippling in order to accelerate product development within Rippling by building all of the common functionalities and connectors. And to create a user-facing experience that allows companies to solve for the long tail of use cases with the hyper configurability of Rippling and exposing the underlying technologies of Rippling in a user-friendly way.

All these projects have customer-facing product components and core platform components supporting 10+ product teams.

What You'll Do:

• Be a technical subject matter expert, provide technical leadership, and share your expertise with a growing team of engineers

• Design, develop, code, and test software systems, improvements, products, and user-facing experiences

• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

• Interact with customers and support them in being successful with Rippling

• Influence technology selections and trends of the whole company

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in technical lead or architect roles

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

• Experience in distributed processing engines and distributed databases of large-scale data sets

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

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.

Tier 1: $198,000 - $279,000/year

Tier 2: $178,000 - $252,000/year

Tier 3: $168,000 - $238,000/year

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 above.