Senior Staff Software Engineer

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 $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock , GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs —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. Rippling Benefits Overview The global benefits market is a $5 Trillion GMV spanning healthcare, financial services, transportation, food, and more. Despite its size, it remains deeply fragmented, high-friction, and confusing for every participant: Employers struggle to choose the right vendors, configure plans, and manage compliance—often requiring entire HR teams to administer benefits. Employees face unclear, opaque options and poor tools for discovering and using the right benefits for their needs. Vendors must manually navigate long, costly sales and implementation cycles to reach employers. Why is the experience so broken? The largest platforms were built in the late '90s and early 2000s. These incumbents have used their entrenched broker and employer distribution to stifle innovation, leaving the market open for disruption. Why Rippling Wins Rippling’s all-in-one HCM suite provides a powerful wedge into this market. By embedding Benefits into our broader platform, we avoid the cold-start problems that hampered standalone benefits startups from winning against established incumbents. We’re now at a scale that we are competing directly with these legacy players and will launch a standalone benefits product in the next couple years to further accelerate our growth. Over the next decade, we will build Benefits into a $2B+ revenue business spanning across 100+ categories. What We're Building We are building a multi-sided marketplace that connects: Employers & Brokers (Demand Side #1) Employees (Demand Side #2) Benefit Partners (Supply Side) Rippling Benefits Rippling Benefits is a classic multi-sided marketplace that owns our benefits supply platforms, fulfillment ecosystem, benefit partner experience, the benefit categories and product catalog and taxonomy, product plans and pricing and discovery and shopping experience for employers and eventually employees. We are on a journey to platformise and scale the marketplace to build robust, resilient, configurable platforms to include catalog, vendor onboarding and integration, product plans and pricing platforms, discovery - search and recommendations, financial platforms for deductions, reimbursement and settlement, data integrations for accurate audits, reconciliation, reporting and insights, monetisation engine that drives employer sales and employee benefits usage and knowledge, and a data suite for benefit partners and brokers. Impact Benefits is the third largest revenue generator for Rippling and recently reached over 20k employers, 500k employees and $50M ARR growing at 40% year on year and well and truly on path to scale over 30+ categories over next 3 years and a billion $ in revenue over the next 5-7 years with the goal to double year over year. We get paid between 2% and 7% of premiums by insurance carriers, 10-20% of revenue by non-insurance partners and draw a PEPY (Per Employee Per Year) average of $20K per employer. Your Role As a Senior Staff Engineer, one of the senior IC role in the Benefits organization, You would have a com