Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Description:

Rippling is growing exceptionally fast. We have 1300+ sales and support personnel and 700+ engineers that need a variety of custom tools to do their best work. Our 3-person engineering team enables the entire company. This role is for the Tools team that manages a variety of key systems like Retool, Sales Account Tooling, and various support features. All features must be completed in a way that is consistent with our security and compliance obligations. It is a high-leverage and high-visibility role which has broad visibility across the entire organization.

What You Will Do
 

• Develop high-quality and reliable software using Retool, Python, Django, React, and other relevant languages and frameworks
• Design, build, ship tools that support the whole company
• Build relationships with teams across engineering, sales, and support, to understand their needs and help improve their day-to-day workflows
• Work with a variety of internal teams to translate high-level business requirements into a software design; communicate the designs to the other developers in the team
• Serve as the technical lead for your team and drive critical projects & large initiatives
• Provide technical mentorship for junior engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Evolve Rippling’s automation story as we continue to scale
   

What You Will Need
 

• 8+ years of proven experience as a backend engineer
• Public Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Infrastructure engineering
• Preferred experience with relevant languages & frameworks: Python, Django, React, Typescript
• Previous experience building tools is a plus
• Previous experience with Retool also a plus