About the role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Time Platform team. You'll build innovative solutions that help businesses around the world manage their workforce. The products we create have a massive impact on how our customers operate at a global scale. Time Products surfaces have the highest QPS of any endpoints at Rippling, and we're leading the company in terms of scaling our infrastructure and product experiences.

You'll be a technical leader in the team, building and owning highly available, reliable, and scalable systems and responsible for the entire lifecycle of critical software. Your role encompasses architectural design, hands-on development, operational excellence, and technical mentorship for Sr and earlier career engineers on a fast-moving team with tremendous impact.

This is a chance to shape the future of a rapidly growing product suite, solve complex challenges, and help businesses manage their most valuable asset: their people.

What you will do

• Write Exceptional Code: Build scalable, maintainable, and high-performance backend systems that power critical workforce management products.
• Move Fast, But with Precision: Deliver high-quality features quickly by balancing speed and safety in your code.
• Drive Architecture & Design: Own architectural decisions and guide the full product lifecycle, from ideation to production. Utilize systems thinking to design and ship fault tolerant highly available, scalable and extendable systems.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to gather customer feedback and refine the product roadmap.
• Mentor & Lead: Support the growth of senior and junior engineers by sharing your expertise and promoting engineering best practices across the team.
• Shape the Future: As an early member of this team, you'll have a direct influence on team culture, structure, and processes.

What you will need

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in backend development with expertise in Python, Django, or similar technologies. Experience in building projects with clean abstractions and architecture
• Frontend Knowledge: Experience with React or JavaScript is a plus.
• Technical Expertise: Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and system design. You're comfortable developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products and can navigate complex technical challenges.
• Product Focused: You're not just a coder-you care deeply about the end user, product design, and delivering an intuitive, polished experience.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment. You don't just solve problems-you identify them, own them, and create solutions that have a lasting impact.

Additional Information

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation-including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

224,000 - 315,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)