Description:
Come help us reinvent one of the largest, most important industries in the world: global employee benefits. Every year, companies and their people spend over $5 trillion on benefits—from healthcare to retirement savings to life insurance. These products shape some of the most critical decisions in a family’s life. And yet, despite their importance, the experience today is outdated, fragmented, and unnecessarily expensive.
At Rippling, we’re building the first-ever modern, multi-sided Global Benefits Marketplace—a platform that brings together brokers, employers, and employees, making benefits discovery, purchase, and usage effortless and transparent. Our benefits vertical spans:
- Benefits Platform – the core engine powering eligibility, recommendations, payments, and configuration.
- Benefits Marketplace – already 100+ partners strong and growing.
- Rippling-native Products – beautifully built, deeply integrated offerings that set a new standard for experience.
If you want to work on a truly global, high-impact problem and architect a product used by millions, this is it.
What You Will Do
- Architect the future: Design a configurable platform that can onboard entirely new benefit types without writing new code—own schemas, validation, pricing logic, and self-serve configuration.
- Think global, build global: Define a unified data model and lead complex migrations (shadowing, dual-writes, safe rollbacks) to deliver a seamless worldwide experience.
- Make customer impact real: Prioritize work that drives adoption, win-rates, and retention—closing feature and integration gaps for SMBs and enterprises alike.
- Supercharge brokers & admins: Build dashboards, alerts, and insights that surface under-used benefits and drive real engagement.
- Be the connector: Align infra, security, compliance, and product stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs clearly; and keep programs on track from kickoff to delivery.
- Innovate & lead: Own architectural decisions, drive full product lifecycle delivery, and set the standard for technical excellence.
- Collaborate & execute: Partner across teams, bring customer feedback into the roadmap, and ship with urgency and impact.
- Mentor & inspire: Uplift teammates, guide junior engineers, and foster a culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and bold thinking.
What You Will Need
- Deep experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record of building large-scale, high-impact platforms.
- Technical mastery: Expertise in distributed systems and services, ideally using Python, Golang, or Java.
- Cloud fluency (bonus): Experience building on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
- Ownership mindset: You don’t just write code—you own the problem, the product, and the customer outcome.
- Customer obsession: A passion for product-focused engineering and for solving real, meaningful problems for people.