Senior Frontend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack to join Rippling's UI Platform team. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone 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'sApplication 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 approximately80% 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• 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 modelling, 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.

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