22 hours ago
Base Salary
$135k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend systems for global payroll and payments infrastructure.
- Develop systems for payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls.
- Create reusable platform primitives supporting local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across regions.
- Build APIs and integration layers for customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data.
- Solve distributed-systems challenges involving financial data, state transitions, retries, and external integrations.
- Collaborate with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and ownership.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure.
- Strong judgment regarding failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response.
- Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.
- Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure; experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful but not required.
- Direct fintech experience is nice to have but not required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, benefits, and equity are offered.
- Office-based employees within the defined radius are expected to work in the SFO office at least three days per week under current policy.
- Rippling provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.
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About Rippling
Rippling builds a unified workforce management platform that combines HR, payroll, IT, and finance software for businesses on a single system. Its SaaS suite covers onboarding, payroll, time tracking, benefits, device and identity management, spend/expenses, and accounting integrations with ERPs like NetSuite, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Oracle. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rippling is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises.