Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We are looking for Staff Software Engineers to join engineering teams across Rippling. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for solving some of the most complex engineering problems within your area.

What you'll do

• Own complex technical problems: Take ambiguous, high-impact engineering problems and drive them from architecture through implementation and production
• Drive architecture: Define technical designs and make thoughtful trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability
• Lead technical initiatives: Drive large engineering projects that may span multiple systems, teams, or product areas
• Partner with Product: Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to understand customer problems and influence both product and technical direction
• Mentor engineers: Help other engineers improve their system design, technical judgment, execution, and ownership

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• System design
• Python
• Java
• C++
• C#
• Go
• Any graduate

Good to have

• MongoDB
• AWS
• Kafka
• React
• Data modelling
• Scala