Senior Software Engineer - HRIS
Rippling
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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 HRIS Product Team at Rippling:
Rippling is rapidly expanding its customer base, supporting larger enterprise customers, and launching new lines of business across its 20+ products, all while scaling globally. At the heart of this ecosystem is Employee Records, a foundational element that powers not only HR products but also integrates seamlessly with every product to deliver a unified, cohesive experience.
The HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) team plays a critical role in managing all aspects of employee data, including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, and transitions. The team's mission is to ensure the correctness and completeness of employee records, which serve as the backbone of Rippling’s ecosystem.
HRIS operates at the forefront of Rippling’s growth, building new products at high velocity to support expansion into new verticals and customer segments while maintaining the integrity of data. As the entry point for any new customer or product integration, the HRIS team is pivotal to delivering Rippling’s vision of a unified platform for modern workforce management.
HRIS Product Verticals
- HRIS Flows Experience: Focused on creating simple, intuitive workflows that empower Rippling's customers to manage employee data seamlessly.
- HRIS Flows Infrastructure: Provides the scalable backbone for all flow products, prioritizing reliability, data integrity, and performance at scale.
- HR Applications: Develops essential tools and interfaces for customers to view, manage, and interact with employee data effectively.
- Org Management: Enables the creation and maintenance of company structures tailored to organizations of all sizes and complexities.
What You’ll Do as a Senior Software Engineer - HRIS
In this role, you will be responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams and leaders to deliver core products. Your responsibilities will include:
- Partner with design and product management leaders to shape and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the team, while maintaining a balanced approach that considers both platform and product perspectives.
- Lead initiatives such as architectural changes, improvements in the hiring process, enhancing engineering effectiveness, and managing post-mortem processes.
- Provide technical leadership and drive development in a dynamic, startup environment for a broadly scoped engineering team.
- Up-level the team by mentoring team members by setting expectations and help them grow to take on larger workstreams with confidence.
- Enforce high-quality deliverables and raise the bar for engineering excellence by building and operationalizing tools, monitors, and processes across the organization.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
- Experience building customer facing products.
- You have seen systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture.
- Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products.
Key skills/competency
- Software Engineering
- HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems)
- System Design
- Scalability
- Architectural Leadership
- Product Development
- Data Integrity
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Mentorship
- Engineering Excellence
How to Get Hired at Rippling
- Research Rippling's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor to understand their "all-in-one" platform vision.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight experience in HRIS, building scalable systems, and technical leadership to align with Rippling's needs.
- Showcase impact with data: Quantify past achievements in system design, product delivery, and improving engineering effectiveness to demonstrate your contributions.
- Prepare for technical deep-dives: Expect rigorous technical questions on distributed systems, system architecture, data integrity, and developing scalable core services.
- Demonstrate collaboration and mentorship: Share concrete examples of successful cross-functional team collaboration and how you've effectively mentored junior engineers.
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