Senior Software 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 worlds top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the HRIS Product Team at Rippling:

Rippling is rapidly expanding its customer base, supporting larger enterprise customers, and launching new lines of business across its 20 products, all while scaling globally. At the heart of this ecosystem is Employee Records, a foundational element that powers not only HR products but also integrates seamlessly with every product to deliver a unified, cohesive experience.

The HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) team plays a critical role in managing all aspects of employee data, including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, and transitions. The team's mission is to ensure the correctness and completeness of employee records, which serve as the backbone of Ripplings ecosystem.

HRIS operates at the forefront of Ripplings growth, building new products at high velocity to support expansion into new verticals and customer segments while maintaining the integrity of data. As the entry point for any new customer or product integration, the HRIS team is pivotal to delivering Ripplings vision of a unified platform for modern workforce management.

HRIS Product Verticals

• HRIS Flows Experience: Focused on creating simple, intuitive workflows that empower Rippling's customers to manage employee data seamlessly.
• HRIS Flows Infrastructure: Provides the scalable backbone for all flow products, prioritizing reliability, data integrity, and performance at scale.
• HR Applications: Develops essential tools and interfaces for customers to view, manage, and interact with employee data effectively.
• Org Management: Enables the creation and maintenance of company structures tailored to organizations of all sizes and complexities.

What Youll Do

In this role, you will be responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams and leaders to deliver core products. Your responsibilities will include:

• Partner with design and product management leaders to shape and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the team, while maintaining a balanced approach that considers both platform and product perspectives.
• Lead initiatives such as architectural changes, improvements in the hiring process, enhancing engineering effectiveness, and managing post-mortem processes.
• Provide technical leadership and drive development in a dynamic, startup environment for a broadly scoped engineering team.
• Up-level the team by mentoring team members by setting expectations and helping them grow to take on larger workstreams with confidence.
• Enforce high-quality deliverables and raise the bar for engineering excellence by building and operationalizing tools, monitors, and processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• Experience building customer-facing products.
• You have seen systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture.
• Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products.

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

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.

Locations: Bangalore, India

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