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Rippling's Fintech Platform builds systems that power global payroll and money movement, turning complex workforce, payroll, tax, compliance, and banking data into accurate, reliable payments for employees, tax authorities, and entities worldwide.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Fintech Platform, you will join a team focused on 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.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and scale backend systems powering 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 supporting local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across multiple regions
- Build APIs and integration layers ingesting complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data with strong correctness guarantees
- Solve distributed-systems problems involving high-volume financial data, state transitions, retries, and integrations with banks, payroll providers, and regulatory partners
- Partner closely with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to turn ambiguous business problems into robust technical systems
- Mentor other engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and clear ownership
Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock, and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. The company is based in San Francisco and values in-office collaboration; office-based employees are expected to work in the office at least three days per week.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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
- Direct fintech experience is nice to have but not required
