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Rippling is a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance that consolidates workforce systems—payroll, expenses, benefits, computers, and integrations—into a single system. The company has raised $1.4B+ from top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and Sequoia.
The Documents Platform team builds the shared infrastructure behind document experiences across Rippling's product suite, including HR, payroll, benefits, and compliance. Rather than each product team building document capabilities independently, this platform provides reusable primitives for creating, generating, importing, signing, annotating, tracking, and managing documents.
As a Staff Software Engineer on Documents Platform, you will help define the technical and product direction of this platform as Rippling scales and use cases grow in complexity. You'll work across backend services and customer-facing product surfaces, partnering closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex document needs into simple, scalable, and extensible platform capabilities. You'll shape both the architecture of the platform and the quality of document experiences across Rippling's product suite.
Key responsibilities:
- Own the technical roadmap and drive architecture and technical direction for key areas of the Documents platform
- Build reusable document capabilities that power experiences across Rippling's product suite
- Design for scale: build extensible APIs and systems that support growing document use cases, workflows, and integrations
- Shape the product experience by working with Product partners to deliver intuitive, end-to-end document experiences
- Lead across teams: partner with product and engineering teams, influence technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the platform
Rippling values in-office collaboration. Employees within 30 miles of an office are expected to work onsite three days a week; those 30-49.9 miles away, one day per week; those over 50 miles away are required to relocate within 30 miles. New employees work onsite three days a week for their first six months.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership on complex product or platform initiatives
- Strong product and platform instincts: ability to translate ambiguous problems into simple, scalable systems, APIs, and reusable solutions
- End-to-end ownership: can operate across backend architecture, data models, APIs, and user-facing experiences
- Technical leadership: lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction, and align teams around complex problems
- Strong engineering fundamentals: design reliable, scalable systems and quickly learn new technologies; Python, TypeScript, and React experience is a plus but not required
