Rippling
Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Agentic Talent Platform
$189K–$315K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of full stack software development experience, including designing and operating large-scale systems.
About the job
Leads development of Rippling’s Agentic Talent platform, building scalable talent products and workflows that let people and AI agents work together.
What you'll do
- Own architecture and hands-on development of reliable, highly available systems across the product lifecycle.
- Partner with Product, AI Platform, designers, and customers to shape and deliver talent workflows.
- Lead technical direction, operational excellence, and mentorship across the team.
What they ask for
- Strong computer science fundamentals and distributed-systems design skills, including asynchronous processing, caching, data modeling, and database scaling.
- Experience designing extensible services, APIs, or primitives used across products and workflows.
- Track record of technical leadership, navigating ambiguity, defining direction, and mentoring engineers.
- Strong product judgment and interest in customer behavior, product design, and intuitive experiences.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, clean abstractions, and event-driven architectures.
- React experience.
Pay
USD 189,000–315,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React
AI focus
Build a platform where people and AI agents collaborate; enable agents to understand context, take action, and coordinate complex talent workflows.
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