Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Transition & Termination

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco seeks an autonomous, senior product leadership engineer to own discovery, design, and full-stack execution of next-generation HR products on the T&T team. You will lead with a product-focused mindset, shaping modern workflows that handle global employment laws and app integrations.

You will mentor teams, raise the quality bar, and partner across Design, Sales, TAMs, Support, and HRIS Platform to drive direction.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience shipping complex, full-stack, customer-facing products.
• A highly product-minded approach with deep customer empathy.
• Ability to break down massive product visions into iterative milestones.
• Proactive problem-solving with evidence-based decisions.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional communication to mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Rethink and scale existing products for massive enterprise customers, identifying gaps and proposing redesigns.
• Build multi-modal workflows, including AI-driven, digest-based UIs for bulk transitions.
• Develop customer-facing products on top of a core temporality engine with clear UX for concurrent changes.
• Collaborate with Design, Sales, TAMs, Support, Product, and HRIS Platform teams to iterate on prototypes.
• Establish a strict definition of done and automate quality guardrails to reduce regressions and support tickets.

Skills

Full-stack

Product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer empathy

Mentoring

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.

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 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About The Role

• Step into a high-leverage, full-stack product leadership role on the core Transition and Termination (T&T) team in San Francisco.
• You will act as an autonomous leader to drive the discovery, design, and full-stack execution of next-generation, customer-facing HR products.
• In this role, you will fill a crucial engineering leadership gap, instilling a rigorous, product-focused mindset to raise the overall execution and quality bar.
• You will tackle an incredibly complex matrix of global employment laws, modalities, and app integrations, questioning the status quo of legacy web systems and building seamless, modern workflows.

What You Will Do

• Rethink and scale existing products for massive enterprise customers - identify product and technical gaps and deliver an opinionated redesigned approach.
• Build net-new, multi-modal workflows—including chat-driven, "digest-based" UIs—allowing bulk enterprise transitions to be managed efficiently using AI.
• Develop customer-facing products on top of a core temporality engine, creating conflict detection and intuitive UX for concurrent employee changes, such as mass compensation reviews.
• Partner tightly with Design, Sales, TAMs, Support, Product, and the HRIS Platform team to continuously iterate on prototypes and drive product direction.
• Establish a strict "definition of done" and enforce automated quality guardrails to systematically reduce regressions, operational effort, and support tickets.

What You Will Need

• Extensive experience shipping complex, full-stack, customer-facing products.
• A highly product-minded approach rather than pure backend distributed systems architecture, coupled with deep customer empathy.
• The ability to break down massive product visions into iterative, shippable milestones and clearly justify your technical and product decisions.
• Proactive problem-solving skills with the ability to "steelman and strawman" decisions and build robust prognoses backed by evidence.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional communication abilities to mentor your team, manage across departments, and hold partners accountable.

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 [e-mail]

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.

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: 189,000 - 315,000 USD per year(US Tier 1)