Senior Software Engineer - Frontend/Fullstack, UI Platform

🏢 About Rippling

Rippling provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, streamlining workforce management from payroll to benefits and IT systems. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has secured over $1.85B in funding and is recognized as a top startup employer.

🎯 The Role

Join Rippling's UI Platform team as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on frontend and fullstack development. This hands-on role involves building foundational platform systems, primarily Rippling’s Application Framework / Server Driven UI, which will be utilized by over 40 product teams. You will drive technical clarity, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and operate in a fast-paced environment, with an approximate 80% frontend and 20% backend split.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Core: JavaScript, TypeScript, React
• Concepts: Frontend Architecture, Component Design, State Management, Performance, Accessibility, Testing, Maintainability, UI Systems, Internal Platforms, Frontend Infrastructure, Developer-facing Frameworks, APIs, Services, Data Modeling, Schemas, Configuration Systems, Platform Integrations, Design Systems, Component Libraries, SDUI, Schema-driven UI, Configuration-driven Platforms, AI Tools.

💼 What You'll Do

• Build and evolve Rippling’s Application Framework / SDUI platform for configurable, consistent, and scalable user experiences.
• Partner with 40+ product teams to support the adoption and evolution of UI Platform capabilities.
• Design and implement reusable frontend platform primitives, patterns, and abstractions to boost engineering velocity.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering to translate platform requirements into high-quality technical solutions.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, performance, developer tooling, and platform reliability.
• Develop backend components for configuration-driven UI, schema-based rendering, and platform APIs.
• Enhance the developer experience for product engineers building on Rippling’s UI Platform.
• Participate in technical design, code reviews, debugging, testing, and production support.
• Utilize AI tools to improve development velocity, code quality, and engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to drive projects and influence technical direction.
• Contribute to design systems, shared UI infrastructure, and AI-assisted development workflows.

✅ What You'll Need

• 6–9 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong frontend/platform/product engineering exposure.
• Proven experience building complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks like 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.
• Comfort working fullstack, with backend exposure in APIs, services, data modeling, or configuration systems.
• Ability to independently own projects from design through execution and launch.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially with multiple product teams.
• Good product and design sensibility, balancing platform consistency with product flexibility.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with high ownership.
• Practical exposure to AI tools, AI-assisted development, or automation is strongly preferred.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, SDUI, or configuration-driven platforms is a strong plus.

🌟 Nice to Have

• 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, or code-generation systems.
• Experience working in a platform team that supports multiple product teams.