Staff Software Engineer - Tax Platform
Bangalorefull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior-level role leading technical strategy and architectural decisions for Rippling's Tax Platform, responsible for scalable, reliable tax calculation and filing systems operating across multiple countries and jurisdictions.
Responsibilities
- System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; define scalability for 50% YoY growth
- Ownership & Impact: Drive function-wide initiatives; shape roadmaps and influence company strategy
- Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish scalable patterns
- Reliability & Correctness: Design auditable, correct systems with graceful degradation at scale
- Global Scale: Address architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across countries and 4,000+ jurisdictions
- Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions; translate business needs into technical strategy
Qualifications
- 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
Skills
Required:Software engineeringDistributed systems designOOP languagesCommunication
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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