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
- Staff-level experience designing and scaling complex production systems where correctness and auditability are critical
- Strong engineering fundamentals across architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, caching, and reliability
- A track record of setting technical direction and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect platform decisions to customer outcomes
- Excellent communication skills and comfort driving alignment across engineering, product, and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements evolve quickly
More about this role
Payroll is one of the most mission-critical systems a company runs. It has to be correct, compliant, explainable, scalable, and trusted by every employee who depends on it. At Rippling, payroll is also one of our biggest product and engineering frontiers: we’re expanding upmarket to serve much larger companies, scaling internationally across new jurisdictions, and rebuilding core calculation infrastructure for a future where payroll is more automated, transparent, and intelligent.
The Payroll Calculation team owns the systems that determine earnings, deductions, taxes, loans, garnishments, pensions, contributions, and jurisdiction-specific payroll logic. These systems sit at the intersection of distributed systems, product engineering, compliance, data modeling, and customer experience. A great payroll calculation platform does more than produce the right number; it helps admins and internal teams understand why that number is right.
As Rippling serves larger enterprise customers and expands native payroll into more countries, the team is building the technical foundation for payroll at global scale. That means designing calculation frameworks that are configurable, versioned,...
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