Senior Software Engineer - Frontend/Fullstack, UI Platform

About Rippling

UI Platform Team

About the Role

What You Will Do

• Build and evolve the Application Framework and Server-Driven UI platform.
• Partner with more than 40 product teams on adoption, integration, and evolution of UI Platform capabilities.
• Design reusable frontend primitives, patterns, abstractions, and workflows.
• Translate platform requirements into technical solutions with Design, Product, and Engineering teams.
• Improve frontend architecture, performance, developer tooling, and platform reliability.
• Build backend components for configuration-driven UI, schema-based rendering, platform APIs, and internal tooling.
• Improve developer experience for product engineers building on the UI Platform.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, testing, rollout planning, and production support.
• Use AI tools to improve development velocity, code quality, validation, and engineering workflows.
• Contribute to design systems, shared UI infrastructure, performance guardrails, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in frontend, platform, or product engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with complex frontend applications using modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks such as React.
• 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.
• Backend exposure to APIs, services, data modeling, schemas, configuration systems, or platform integrations.
• Ability to own projects from design through execution, launch, and iteration.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across product teams and stakeholders.
• Good product and design sensibility with comfort balancing consistency and flexibility.
• 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, or 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 on a platform team that supports multiple product teams.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Build systems that directly affect how more than 40 product teams build and ship.
• Work on platform problems across frontend architecture, SDUI, design systems, performance, and developer experience.
• Help shape AI-assisted development inside a large production web application.
• Gain ownership, visibility, and an opportunity to grow toward Staff-level platform scope.