Staff Software Engineer

Description:

About the Role:

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the newly launched Application Tracking System (ATS) (LI Post) product at Rippling, you would be responsible for delivering key products in Rippling’s Talent strategy, enabling Rippling and its customers to hire their teams.
Established last year, the team is responsible for building a world-class ATS that enables the next generation of talent products to scale. Within ATS, engineers operate an extensive platform that powers a large-scale user-facing application for the talent teams alongside a robust integration framework for our 3rd party partners.
As an engineer on the ATS team, you will be exposed to challenges ranging from rapidly launching new product lines (0->1) to scaling for massive growth and a wide array of engineering requirements. You’ll be working on defining, driving, and delivering the team's technical roadmap and the underlying infrastructure at Rippling for the next five years and beyond.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers and the business to create user-friendly frontend features.
• Produce quality software that is shipped incrementally and continually at a high velocity
• Have extensive ownership over various parts of the product.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers across the organization to design features and help bring a high-quality product to market.
• Interact with early customers and support them in being successful with the new product.
• Provide thoughtful feedback to your peers, and benefit from strong mentorship yourself.

What You'll Need:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Kotlin/Python, etc.) and web frameworks (Django, RoR, Spring, etc.).
• Experience in creating and expanding high-traffic products or systems.
• Ability to effectively align on deliverables while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Ability to assess technical strategies and create solutions that can effectively solve real-world problems.
• Experience with driving optimizations for efficiency, availability, quality, and operational excellence.
• End-to-end approach that crosses team boundaries and helps find organizational solutions
• Experience with providing mentorship for senior developers within the team.