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About the Role

The Core Experience team is responsible for the initial and daily interactions users have with Rippling. This includes building onboarding flows, self-serve growth infrastructure for product discovery and purchase, and foundational elements like the home dashboard, navigation, user management, and company settings. The team operates at the intersection of product surface and platform infrastructure, creating reusable components and scaling self-serve checkout and entitlement flows for a multi-product environment. This role is ideal for individuals who enjoy building foundational systems that enhance team output and prioritize user experience quality.

Responsibilities

Design and build backend systems powering Core Experience's highest-leverage surfaces: onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and shared platform primitives.
Take end-to-end technical ownership, including schema design, API contracts, performance, reliability, and production observability.
Collaborate directly with product and design teams to shape feature development.
Build for scale and reuse, ensuring systems are correct, well-documented, and thoughtfully abstracted for consumption by other engineering teams.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in backend systems.
Systems thinking: Design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start. Understand trade-offs between consistency and availability.
Full-stack range: Backend-leaning but comfortable owning features end-to-end.
High agency: Proactively identify problems, scope solutions, and execute without needing well-defined tickets.
Platform instinct: Approach work as infrastructure for others, writing code and designing APIs accordingly.
Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
Strong data modeling skills across SQL and NoSQL.

Skills

Backend systems development
Schema design
API contracts
Performance optimization
Reliability engineering
Observability
Systems thinking
Full-stack development
Platform development
Python
Go
Java
SQL
NoSQL
Data modeling

Location

Office-based (within a defined radius of a Rippling office)

Work Type

Onsite (at least three days a week)

Experience Level

8+ years

About the Company

Rippling is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.

Equal Opportunity

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
We 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 accommodations@rippling.com.