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Rippling is a unified workforce platform managing HR, IT, payroll, benefits, computers, and apps for businesses. The company has raised $1.8B from top-tier investors and processes over $30 billion in annual payroll for 1 million+ employees, growing 50% year-over-year.
Rippling's Tax Platform is one of only ~5 companies globally that owns the full tax calculation and filing stack. The systems handle millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries, ensuring tax correctness across 4,000+ jurisdictions while staying compliant with constantly changing tax regulations.
You will join as a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy, drive architectural decisions, and shape the future of the tax infrastructure. This is a function-wide impact role where you will set the standard for engineering excellence across teams.
Key responsibilities:
• System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; make decisions that define how the platform scales for 50% YoY growth.
• Ownership & Impact: Drive initiatives with function-wide visibility; your work shapes roadmaps and influences company strategy.
• Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish patterns that scale with the organization.
• Reliability & Correctness: Design systems where failure is not an option; build for auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation at scale.
• Global Scale: Tackle architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations.
• Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions; translate business needs into technical strategy.
Requirements:
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• Proven ability to architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability requirements
• Deep expertise in any OOP language and experience designing systems that other engineers build on
• Track record of driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple teams
• Strong ownership mindset—you see problems through from identification to resolution
• Rigorous engineering practices with a focus on correctness, testing, and operational excellence
• Excellent communication skills; ability to represent engineering to leadership and stakeholders
