Software Engineer II

The typical Rippling interview experience involves a technical interview, a behavioral interview, and an HR round. The technical interview focuses on coding skills and problem-solving abilities, while the behavioral interview assesses communication and teamwork skills. The HR round evaluates cultural fit and company knowledge.

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. We prioritize collaboration, excellence, and continuous growth.

3+ years of professional work experience, Strong CS knowledge and expertise, Preferred experience with Python, Go, Django, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS, Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture

Round 1: Technical interview, Round 2: Behavioral interview, Round 3: HR (based on company knowledge)

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, and Bedrock—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. Join our fast-growing Payroll team at Rippling as we build the future of payroll! As a Software Engineer II, you will play a critical role in advancing our full-service payroll platform that handles tax filing and payments for thousands of taxes across businesses. This is a great opportunity to shape the technology powering an essential business function for over 10,000 customers. You will own and drive core initiatives by creating new products/features from the ground up as well as rearchitecting key components of our platform. If you are an experienced engineer looking for high impact and autonomy, come build the future of payroll with us! What you’ll do: - Confidently ship moderate/large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. - Collaborate with the team on larger projects. - Modeling and executing against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems. - Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and turning them into an actionable plan, and then executing on it with the team. - Implement comprehensive unit tests for confirming functionality and the quality of code. Ensure high-quality code and related documentation. - Build relationships with teams across engineering, ops, and support, to understand their needs and help improve their day-to-day workflows. Qualifications: - 3+ years of professional work experience. - Strong CS knowledge and expertise. - Preferred experience with Python, Go, Django, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS. - Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture. Join us at Rippling and contribute to the advancement of our innovative payroll product. Help us streamline payroll processing, simplify tax filings, and enhance integration capabilities, all while working with cutting-edge technologies. We value collaboration, excellence, and continuous growth, and we look forward to having you as part of our dynamic team.