About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure
- Strong engineering judgment around 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 technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required
More about this role
Rippling’s Fintech Platform builds the systems that make global payroll and money movement accurate, reliable, and scalable. We turn complex workforce, payroll, tax, compliance, and banking data into payments for employees, tax authorities, and entities worldwide.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join the Fintech Platform organization and be matched to a team based on your experience and business needs. Teams own foundational capabilities such as payroll orchestration, payment execution, ledgers, reconciliation, treasury, risk, and global compliance.
This is systems work where correctness is tangible: the software you build helps ensure people are paid accurately and on time.
- Design, build, and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure.
- Develop high-integrity systems for payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls.
- Create country-agnostic platform primitives that can support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across many regions.
- Build APIs and integration layers that ingest complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data with...
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