Lekko

Rippling Builds a Founder First Company | Rippling Blog

Rippling announces the integration of Lekko, a highly skilled engineering team founded by Konrad Niemiec, into Rippling. Lekko was created to replicate and evolve the dynamic coding tools Konrad and his team developed at Uber and Meta. The collaboration emphasizes transparent tooling, minimizing rebuilds, avoiding recurring incidents or zombie flags, and fostering closer, more individualized relationships with customers, clients, and partners.

The joining of Lekko’s engineers—Konrad Niemiec, David Kang, Sergey Passichenko, and Jonathan Dobbie—into Rippling’s Platform team marks a strategic step to accelerate the scalability and flexibility of Rippling’s platform. Rippling highlights a shared culture where autonomy is valued and uncertainty is faced head-on. The integration aims to leverage combined experiences to deliver faster, more adaptable solutions for growing customers and users.

---

How it Works / What Changes

• Lekko’s founding team and engineers join Rippling’s Platform team, contributing to core platform capabilities.
• The collaboration emphasizes founder-level grit, ambition, and resilience, aligning with Rippling’s practice of hiring former founders to drive product and team growth.
• Konrad and the Lekko team will accelerate investment in the Rippling platform, enabling scalability and more responsive product development.
• The integration is framed as a seamless expansion of Rippling’s engineering efforts, rather than a disruption, with a focus on immediate impact and leadership from former founders.

---

Why This Matters for Rippling

• Expands the Platform team with experienced founders who can lead and scale new products from scratch.
• Brings a track record of building tools used by large tech ecosystems, increasing potential for innovative features and reliability.
• Reinforces Rippling’s founder-first hiring philosophy, which seeks individuals who can drive teams and product strategy with resilience and ownership.
• Signals continued growth and investment in Rippling’s ecosystem to meet the needs of a growing customer base.

---

How to Engage / Opportunities

• Rippling is actively hiring across Engineering and other departments to leverage the Lekko integration and expand product capabilities.
• Interested founders or former founders are encouraged to explore open roles at Rippling.

---

Safety and Legal Considerations

• This content reflects corporate communications and is intended for informational purposes regarding organizational growth and hiring strategy. No specific legal or tax advice is provided here.

Core Features

• Founder-first hiring approach: prioritizes former founders to lead product and teams.
• Seamless platform expansion: integration of Lekko’s engineering expertise into Rippling’s Platform team.
• Speed and resilience: emphasis on avoiding rebuilds, zombie flags, and recurring incidents through better coding tools.
• Scalable infrastructure: focus on accelerating scalability and flexibility of the Rippling platform.
• Culture alignment: shared values around autonomy, adaptability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Open roles across Engineering and other functions: opportunities for founders and engineers to join Rippling.