2 months ago
Base Salary
$189k - $315k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical strategy for payroll calculation systems.
- Write critical production code and lead high-impact technical initiatives.
- Design configurable, versioned, testable, explainable, scalable, and debuggable payroll frameworks.
- Use AI to improve how payroll logic is built, validated, explained, and operated while preserving accuracy, auditability, and control.
- Build enterprise-scale payroll systems for complex legal-entity structures and approval workflows.
- Expand native payroll capabilities across countries and jurisdictions.
- Improve distributed systems, database performance, caching, reliability, and operability.
- Partner with product, design, payroll operations, HRIS, and engineering teams to deliver customer outcomes.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across payroll platform, earnings, deductions, taxes, and jurisdiction-specific logic.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience designing and scaling complex production systems where correctness and auditability are critical.
- Strong fundamentals in architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, caching, and reliability.
- Track record of setting technical direction and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Strong product judgment and ability to connect platform decisions to customer outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and requirements.
- Payroll experience is helpful but not required; experience in other high-integrity domains is valued.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, benefits, and equity are provided.
- US-based salary is aligned to a location-based range, with final offers varying by background, experience, and location.
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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.