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 $1.4B+ 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.

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About the Role

Most analytics products visualize data.

We're building the system that allows every workflow, product, and AI experience at Rippling to understand, reason about, and act on data.

Rippling's Data Cloud powers every analytical experience across the company—from operational dashboards used by HR and IT administrators, to executive reporting, to the next generation of AI-driven workflows. Our vision is to create a unified analytical platform that combines ingestion, transformation, modeling, visualization, and AI into a seamless experience that helps customers understand and operate their businesses in real time.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Front-End Engineer to define the architecture behind that vision.

This is one of the most influential front-end roles at Rippling. You will own the technical direction for the visualization and analytical experience that sits on top of vast amounts of operational data and powers critical decision-making for customers around the world.

You'll architect the systems that transform complex, multi-modal datasets into intuitive, interactive experiences. You'll define how users explore and understand data, how visualizations scale to massive datasets, and how AI copilots translate user intent into meaningful actions across the product.

The work extends well beyond traditional front-end engineering. You'll operate as a strategic technical leader across Data Cloud, partnering closely with Staff+ backend engineers, AI infrastructure teams, product leaders, and designers to build the future of analytics inside Rippling.

The systems you build will become the foundation for every reporting, analytics, visualization, and AI-powered data experience across the company.

What You Will Do

Define and own the long-term architecture for Rippling's analytics and visualization platform

Build highly performant visualization systems capable of rendering and interacting with large-scale, real-time datasets

Design the core interaction models that power data exploration, reporting, dashboards, and analytical workflows across Rippling

Architect the front-end systems that connect AI copilots and LLM-powered experiences directly into analytical workflows

Establish scalable frameworks, design patterns, and engineering standards used by hundreds of engineers across the company

Drive major architectural decisions around rendering performance, state management, data fetching, and front-end platform evolution

Partner closely with Design and Product to create intuitive, consumer-grade experiences for highly complex enterprise workflows

Lead and mentor a team of front-end engineers while serving as the primary front-end technical leader within Data Cloud

Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, and ML teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end analytical experiences

Drive large-scale front-end initiatives that improve developer productivity, product consistency, and engineering velocity across Rippling

What You Will Need

10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at the Staff or Senior Staff level

Deep expertise in front-end architecture, browser performance, rendering systems, and large-scale application design

Proven experience building highly interactive, enterprise-grade customer-facing products with significant technical complexity

Strong understanding of modern front-end frameworks and patterns, including performance optimization at scale

Experience designing systems that handle large datasets, real-time updates, virtualization, caching, and advanced client-side state management

Demonstrated success leading major front-end platform initiatives or architectural transformations

Strong product instincts and the ability to make independent technical decisions in highly ambiguous environments

Experience mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering organizations through technical leadership

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and senior engineering leaders

Experience building analytics, visualization, BI, developer tooling, or data-centric products is highly valued

Why This Role Is Unique

Most front-end engineering roles focus on a single product surface.

This role gives you the opportunity to define the analytical experience for an entire business platform.

You'll build the systems that sit at the intersection of large-scale data, visualization, and artificial intelligence. You'll determine how users explore information, how AI interacts with business data, and how hundreds of engineers build analytical experiences on top of a shared platform.

The work spans distributed systems, data infrastructure, visualization engines, AI-powered workflows, and front-end architecture at company scale.

If you're excited about building the next generation of analytics experiences—and helping define how humans and AI collaborate around data—we'd love to talk.

Additional Information

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

201,000 - 335,000 CAD per year(CA)

207,000 - 345,000 USD per year(US)