Software Engineer-2 Variable Compensation

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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The Variable Compensation team is dedicated to developing a groundbreaking 0-to-1 product that enables companies to compensate their employees based on performance and target achievements. This consumer-facing product aims to revolutionize how businesses manage performance-based pay, providing a seamless and intuitive experience for both employers and employees.

We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced Software Engineer 2 to join our Variable Compensation team. As a foundational member of the team, you will be working on designing, building, and scaling a first-of-its-kind compensation product. You will work on complex data pipelines, large-scale distributed systems, and cutting-edge performance analytics. Your work will have a direct impact on shaping how businesses pay their employees based on performance.

• Build & Innovate : Design and implement scalable, high-performant, intuitive user interfaces to support processing of large-scale sophisticated compensation data and performance metrics.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Make key technical decisions that impact the long-term success of the VC platform. Write clean, maintainable code, along with setting best practices for quality, security, and system reliability.
• Lead & Collaborate: Work with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to translate ambiguous specs into clear execution plans and drive them through completion.
• Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a high-performance team culture.

• 2+ years of experience in front-end engineering roles.
• Strong understanding of JS fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (especially ES6+), React, HTML, and CSS, and unit and integration testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end performance optimization techniques.
• Experience in building user-centric applications and large-scale frontend infrastructures.
• Familiarity with creating engaging and scalable interfaces within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable in an environment that encourages autonomy, learning new technologies and innovation to devise creative frontend solutions to tackle real-world engineering challenges.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
• Bonus: Experience designing and building SaaS products
• Bonus: Experience in backend technologies like python, mongo, etc.

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

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