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Staff Full Stack Software Engineer in USA

Rippling
Full time
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USA
10/09/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Develop scalable, maintainable, high-performance systems powering critical talent products and workflows.
Lead architectural decisions from early prototypes through production, designing fault-tolerant, highly available, scalable, and extensible systems.
Own software throughout its lifecycle and establish standards for observability, reliability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Partner with product managers, designers, AI Platform engineers, and customers to shape the roadmap and develop products from ambiguous problems.
Provide technical leadership through design reviews, abstractions, engineering practices, and mentorship.
Influence the technical direction, culture, structure, and ways of working of an early team.

Requirements

8+ years of full-stack software development experience, including designing and operating large-scale systems.
Strongly preferred experience with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, clean abstractions, event-driven architectures, and React.
Strong command of computer science fundamentals and distributed-system design, including asynchronous processing, caching, data modeling, and database scaling.
Experience designing extensible services, APIs, or primitives used across multiple products and workflows.
Demonstrated product judgment, interest in customer behavior and product design, and ability to deliver intuitive experiences.
Track record of defining technical direction, scoping complex work, reviewing designs, navigating ambiguity, and helping engineers grow.
Comfort working in fast-moving, unstructured environments and proactively improving products and engineering practices.

Benefits

Competitive salary, benefits, and equity are offered.
Office-based employees within a defined radius are currently expected to work in the office at least three days per week.
Rippling provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the hiring process.

Salary: $189k - $315k/yr

Rippling

Current simplifies how businesses manage HR, IT, and Finance by integrating all workforce systems into one platform. This unified approach streamlines processes like payroll, benefits, and expenses, allowing companies to automate the entire employee lifecycle efficiently.

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