Senior Software Engineer - Frontend/Fullstack, UI Platform

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.

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Frontend-Fullstack to join Rippling’s UI Platform team.
• This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is strong in frontend engineering, comfortable working across the stack, and excited about building platform systems that are used by many product teams.
• In this role, you will work on Rippling’s Application Framework / Server Driven UI platform, helping product teams build and integrate scalable, configuration-driven user experiences. You will partner with engineers, designers, product managers, and platform stakeholders across the company to solve high-leverage problems that improve how Rippling products are built and shipped.
• The ideal candidate has strong frontend fundamentals, practical backend exposure, good product intuition, and the ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams. This role is approximately 80% frontend and 20% backend, with a strong emphasis on building reusable frameworks, scalable UI architecture, and developer-facing platform capabilities.
• You should be comfortable owning projects end-to-end, driving technical clarity, communicating well with partner teams, and operating in a fast-moving environment where platform decisions can impact dozens of product surfaces.

• →Build and evolve Rippling’s Application Framework / SDUI platform, enabling product teams to create configurable, consistent, and scalable user experiences.
• →Partner with 40+ product teams to support adoption, integration, and evolution of UI Platform capabilities.
• →Design and implement reusable frontend platform primitives, patterns, abstractions, and workflows that improve engineering velocity across Rippling.
• →Work closely with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to translate platform requirements into high-quality technical solutions.
• →Contribute to frontend architecture, performance improvements, developer tooling, and platform reliability.
• →Build backend components where needed to support configuration-driven UI, schema-based rendering, platform APIs, and internal tooling.
• →Help improve the developer experience for product engineers building on top of Rippling’s UI Platform.
• →Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, debugging, testing, rollout planning, and production support.
• →Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve development velocity, code quality, validation, and engineering workflows.
• →Collaborate with senior engineers to drive larger projects, influence technical direction, and raise the quality bar across the team.
• →Contribute to platform systems such as design systems, shared UI infrastructure, performance guardrails, and AI-assisted development workflows.

• 6–9 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with strong frontend/platform/product engineering exposure.
• Strong hands-on experience building complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React.
• Solid understanding of frontend architecture, component design, state management, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience building reusable UI systems, internal platforms, frontend infrastructure, or developer-facing frameworks.
• Comfortable working fullstack, with backend exposure in areas such as APIs, services, data modeling, schemas, configuration systems, or platform integrations.
• Ability to independently own well-defined to moderately ambiguous projects from design through execution, launch, and iteration.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially when working with multiple product teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Good product and design sensibility; able to balance platform consistency with product flexibility.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and high ownership.
• Practical exposure to AI tools, AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, orchestration, or automation is strongly preferred.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, SDUI, schema-driven UI, or configuration-driven platforms is a strong plus.

• Experience building or contributing to design systems or shared frontend platforms.
• Experience with server-driven UI / schema-driven UI / configuration-driven rendering.
• Exposure to frontend monorepos, micro-frontends, module federation, or large-scale web architecture.
• Experience building internal developer tools, platform APIs, or productivity infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools, AI agent workflows, prompt orchestration, automated validation, or code-generation systems.
• Experience working in a platform team that supports multiple product teams.

• You will build systems that directly impact how 40+ product teams build and ship at Rippling.
• You will work on high-leverage platform problems across frontend architecture, SDUI, design systems, performance, and developer experience.
• You will help shape the future of AI-assisted development inside a large production web application.
• You will work on foundational systems where improvements benefit every product team, not just one feature area.
• You will get strong ownership, high visibility, and the opportunity to grow toward Staff-level platform scope over time.