# Staff Software Engineer - Documents AI at Rippling

- Company: Rippling
- What the company does: 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 (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $315K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/b6afa942-6bd7-4d08-8110-c030611d22bb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-staff-software-engineer-documents-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

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