Frontend Engineer II

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.

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.

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About The Role

The Data Cloud team provides comprehensive, cross-application data insights for our customers. Our products—such as reporting, dashboards, data catalogs, and transformations—help customers understand and utilize their data to make informed decisions.

This front-end engineering role focuses on building our Reporting product suite. You'll be developing features for advanced report configuration, report templatization and organization, and other analytical tools that will enable Rippling’s customers to intuitively extract value and meaning out of the data they store in Rippling.

We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about creating exceptional user experiences. You should be comfortable with the latest React performance best practices, parallel data fetching, end-user experience monitoring, and building maintainable, well-tested APIs for complex data interactions.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to both product and platform layers. We prioritize scalability and extensibility, ensuring solutions serve all of Rippling’s current and future applications. The Data Cloud team is highly visible and collaborates closely with many other teams across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert and leader within the team
• Share your expertise and mentor a growing team of engineers
• Continuously raise the bar for engineering quality by driving best practices in coding, testing, and deployment

What You Will Need

• Depth and quality of experience are more important than years, though successful candidates typically have 2+ years of development experience
• Strong experience building well-tested, composable components in React, including design systems and component libraries
• An eye for detail in the user experience—polish, readability, accessibility, and performance
• Skilled in performance tuning for dynamic, front-end-heavy applications
• Experience working with systems at significant technical and organizational scale
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and identifying high-impact opportunities
• Proven ability to influence technology decisions across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication of complex technical ideas

Key skills/competency

• Frontend Development
• React
• User Experience (UX)
• Data Visualization
• Scalability
• Performance Tuning
• API Integration
• Design Systems
• Mentorship
• Collaborative Environment