# Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Agentic Talent Platform at Rippling

- Company: Rippling
- What the company does: 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. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://rippling.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $189K to $315K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/e0c33127-6db4-4750-882d-1fc255f0a630?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-staff-full-stack-software-engineer-backend-agentic-talent-platform/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead Rippling’s Agentic Talent platform, a world where people and AI agents work together. As a technical leader, your goal is to create intuitive experiences for people alongside secure, reliable capabilities that enable agents to understand context, take action, and coordinate complex talent workflows. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Technical Depth: Strong command of computer science fundamentals and distributed-system design, including asynchronous processing, caching, data modeling, and database scaling
- Platform Thinking: Experience designing extensible services, APIs, or primitives used across multiple products and workflows
- Product Judgment: A deep interest in customer behavior, product design, and delivering intuitive, polished experiences. We’re not just writing code
- Technical Leadership: A track record of navigating ambiguity, defining technical direction, scoping complex work, reviewing designs, and helping other engineers grow
- Founder Mindset: Comfort operating in fast-moving, unstructured environments and proactively identifying opportunities to improve both the product and how the team builds it

Tags: Engineering

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