About Rippling
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 $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors - including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About UI Platform
The UI Platform team is a foundational platform group responsible for raising the bar on technology, quality, performance, and reliability across Rippling’s web and mobile applications. Our mission is to enable hundreds of product engineers across 30+ products to move fast without fragmenting the system or degrading critical paths. We do this by building and operating shared frameworks, full-stack platform services, and runtime infrastructure that become the default way UI is built at Rippling.
The team owns some of the highest-impact and highest-risk surfaces in the product — including App Shell, navigation, performance infrastructure, and configuration-driven platforms like SuperGrid and Flows. Small changes here can ripple across every application, which means we operate with a strong focus on modularity, isolation, governance, and enforcement, not just APIs and libraries. This is a team for engineers who enjoy working on foundations, care deeply about scale and correctness, and want their work to have org-wide leverage rather than local impact.
The opportunity
Rippling is building one of the largest and most complex SaaS platforms in the world, spanning HR, Finance, and IT.
As our product surface area and engineering organization continue to scale, platform reliability, performance, and consistency must be built into the system by default.
We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer (L9) to provide technical leadership for the backend and full-stack foundations of Rippling’s UI Platform.
You will help evolve UI Platform into an end-to-end platform organization responsible for the services, configuration systems, orchestration layers, APIs, and runtime infrastructure that power consistent experiences across Rippling.
This is not a traditional frontend engineering role. We are looking for a strong backend and platform engineer with deep experience building large-scale systems using technologies such as Golang, Java, or Python.
You will own some of the most critical paths in the product while building foundational platforms that reduce fragmentation, improve reliability, and encode engineering best practices as defaults.
The role combines:
You will partner closely with Staff and Senior Staff engineers, Engineering Managers, and Directors across the Platform organization to shape how Rippling builds and operates product experiences for years to come.
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The final compensation offered to a successful candidate will depend on several factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, education, training, and business need. This position may also be eligible for bonuses, commissions, and/or equity, subject to applicable plan documents and company policy. Successful candidates hired for this role may also be eligible to participate in the company's benefits programs, which may include, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement benefits, and/or paid time off, as determined by company policy.