Staff Frontend Engineer

Job Description 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 365all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world's top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses. About The Role The App Components Team is a forward-thinking, platform-focused product engineering team dedicated to crafting the cohesive, high-performing building blocks that define Rippling's Enterprise Studio experience. We are looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution of the client-side architecture that powers these components. In this role, you will be the expert on how Rippling constructs its user interfaces across both Web and Mobile. While your primary focus will be on the frontend, this is a truly full-stack role. You will not only design highly reusable, performant React and React Native components, but you will also dive into the backend (Python/Django) to architect the APIs and data models required to support them. You will ensure that our UI is powered by a robust, scalable backend foundation. What You Will Do - Architect Client-Side Systems: Drive the architectural vision for the App Components frontend. You will design scalable, abstract component systems that work seamlessly across React (Web) and React Native (Mobile). - Set the Standard for UI Excellence: Deeply understand rendering performance, state management, and native mobile constraints. You will ensure our components deliver 60fps performance and a native-quality feel, regardless of the platform. - Operate Across the Stack: While your depth is in the frontend, you will actively contribute to the backend codebase. You will write production-grade Python and Django code to build the APIs, schema definitions, and business logic needed to unblock your frontend work. - Platform Design: Design the API surface of our components. Since other engineering teams build on top of your work, you will focus heavily on Developer Experience (DX), creating intuitive interfaces that allow other teams to move faster. - Navigate Ambiguity: Take ownership of major product initiatives from vague requirements to concrete technical designs. You will figure out how to build complex App Studio visual builders that don't exist yet. - Elevate Engineering Standards: Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on advanced frontend patterns, accessibility standards, and performance optimization. You will act as a subject matter expert for React/React Native across the wider organization. What You Will Need - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a primary focus on building complex frontend applications at scale. - Deep Frontend Expertise: Mastery of React and React Native. You have a deep understanding of the DOM, the React reconciliation process, mobile bridge architecture, and modern CSS/styling approaches. - Solid Backend Proficiency: You are comfortable designing and writing production code in Python, Django, and Golang. You understand database modeling (MongoDB) and can architect APIs that efficiently serve your UI requirements. - Product & Design fluency: You care deeply about the product experience. You can partner with designers to deconstruct complex workflows and translate them into elegant technical solutions. - Platform Mindset: Experience building design systems, component libraries, or developer tools. You understand how to build generic, reusable software that scales from 0 to 1 to 1 to 100. - Leadership: A track record of influencing technical direction across teams and mentoring engineers to improve their craftsmanship in both frontend architecture and full-stack delivery. 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 disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [Confidential Information] Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.