One platform. Many products. Infinite possibilities.

The central insight behind Rippling is that employee data is far more distributed than most people realise. That disconnectedness is the root cause of countless administrative problems. We've created a unified data model that combines employee data, as well as data from other business applications. We call this Rippling's Employee Graph. Everything we build sits on top of it.

Directly above the Employee Graph is Rippling's middleware. It's a powerful set of core capabilities, including workflow automation, analytics, permissions and policies. These components sit within every product we build, and their functionality can be reconfigured to address a wide range of problems. With this foundation in place, we avoid building the most basic parts of each product over and over again.

Since we're not building from scratch, our engineers can focus on the most interesting—and challenging—parts of their product. They spend their time understanding the business processes, decision-making and workflows specific to what they're building, and determining which abstractions are best suited to supporting its most complex use cases. That allows us to ship better products faster.