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.
About the role
Documents are embedded across nearly every part of the employee lifecycle, powering critical experiences across HR, payroll, benefits, compliance, and more. The Documents Platform team builds the shared infrastructure and primitives for creating, generating, importing, signing, annotating, understanding, tracking, and managing documents across Rippling. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership on complex product or platform initiatives
- Strong Product & Platform Instincts: You translate ambiguous problems into simple, scalable systems, APIs, and reusable solutions
- End-to-End Ownership: You can operate across backend architecture, data models, APIs, and user-facing experiences
- Technical Leadership: You lead cross-functional initiatives, influence technical direction, and align teams around complex problems
- Strong Engineering Fundamentals: You design reliable, scalable systems and can quickly learn new technologies, Python experience is a plus but not required
More about this role
Documents are embedded across nearly every part of the employee lifecycle, powering critical experiences across HR, payroll, benefits, compliance, and more. The Documents Platform team builds the shared infrastructure and primitives for creating, generating, importing, signing, annotating, understanding, tracking, and managing documents across Rippling.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define the technical vision for the next generation of Rippling’s Document Platform and lead the charter to make AI a foundational part of the product. You’ll work closely with Rippling’s AI teams, product teams, and engineering leaders to identify high-impact opportunities, establish durable platform abstractions, and turn advances in AI into reliable, secure, and intuitive document experiences.
This is a highly cross-functional technical leadership role. You will shape architecture across Documents AI, align teams around a cohesive strategy, and lead the execution of complex initiatives spanning intelligent document generation, extraction, understanding, transformation, and workflow automation.
- Set the Technical Vision: Define and drive the long-term architecture and technical roadmap for...
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