Fullstack Engineer II (Backend) - HRIS Company

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 $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

Join the HRIS Company Team at Rippling, where you'll play a crucial role in transforming the onboarding and purchasing experience for thousands of businesses. As a fast-growing SaaS company, Rippling is dedicated to addressing key challenges in our current processes, such as the complex and manual nature of new company onboarding, the lack of flexibility in app purchasing, and the absence of trial opportunities for potential customers.

Our mission is to accelerate Rippling’s growth by enhancing the product experience. We aim to provide customers with flexible purchasing options, allowing them to select individual apps or the entire platform, while also creating efficient upgrade paths and trial opportunities. Additionally, we strive to make the onboarding process fast, efficient, and error-free for both new customers and our operations team.

As an engineer on this team, you'll tackle these challenges head-on by developing self-serve SaaS product trial and sign-up flows, revamping onboarding workflows to reduce manual steps, and building near-real-time data sync systems with third-party HCM systems. Join us to make a significant impact and drive innovation at Rippling!

What you will do

• Full-Stack Development: Enhance and perfect user-facing features by working across the entire stack, ensuring they deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Collaborative Innovation: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other experts to creatively and effectively bring features to life.
• Seamless Integration: Design and implement cohesive, impactful experiences that unify our UI and API layers.
• Confident Decision-Making: Navigate ambiguity with confidence, making informed decisions to address undefined product details while continuously learning from user feedback.
• Cultivate Excellence: Play an integral role in fostering a culture of excellence within our product and engineering teams, inspiring high standards and continuous growth.

What you will need

• 3+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or similar technologies, with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions.
• Scalability Experience: Familiarity with systems operating at significant technical and organizational scales, demonstrating your capability to manage complex infrastructures.
• Product Intuition: A strong sense of design and user experience, with the ability to quickly identify and implement meaningful improvements.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (especially ES6+), React, HTML/CSS, and robust testing frameworks for unit and integration testing.
• CS Fundamentals: A deep understanding of computer science principles and algorithms, enabling innovative problem-solving and efficient solutions.
• Effective Communication: Strong communication skills that enable you to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders, fostering collaboration and understanding.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental dis