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Staff Software Engineer - Fintech AI

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$189k - $315kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role focused on building AI-native payroll onboarding and global expansion infrastructure for Rippling’s payroll platform, with emphasis on deterministic back-end systems, LLM-enabled workflows, and scalable, compliant international expansion.

Responsibilities

  • Architect for Global Expansion: Design and build platform infrastructure that empowers country expansion teams to deploy Rippling Payroll into new international markets with minimal friction.
  • AI-Driven Workflows: Merge LLMs with rigid, deterministic code. Build conversational setup experiences that feel human but execute with 100% mathematical and compliance accuracy.
  • Deconstruct Complexity: Translate massive, messy regulatory frameworks and payroll setup flows across dozens of jurisdictions into clean, elegant backend systems and seamless product UX.
  • Scale the Platform: Own core pieces of a massive transactional system, optimizing for scale, high availability, and bulletproof data integrity.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience (8+ years) in software engineering with sustained technical leadership and measurable organizational impact.
  • Exceptional depth in architecting platform and distributed systems with highly observable and resilient architectures at scale.
  • Hands-on coding proficiency with active contributions alongside strategic responsibilities.
  • Proven ability to spearhead cross-functional technical initiatives and align engineering and product squads.
  • Acute product intuition to transform ambiguous requirements into durable platform primitives.
  • Precise and articulate communication skills for diverse stakeholders.
  • Resilience in high-velocity environments with evolving tech shifts.
  • Prior expertise in developing agentic workflows or AI-native systems is highly regarded.

Skills

Required:Software architectureDistributed systemsCommunication
Nice to have:AI-native / agentic workflowsLLM integration

Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • benefits
  • equity
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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