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Senior Staff Engineer - Global Payroll

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (London)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Engineer to transform Rippling’s global payroll engineering systems, leveraging AI-native solutions and modern practices to unify and scale payroll operations across multiple countries. Lead architecture, scale, and cross-functional collaboration to drive automation, data unification, and enterprise-grade payroll platform growth.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, data-driven systems that transform, normalize, and reconcile payroll data across multiple countries, entities, and currencies.
  • Drive platform evolution by re-architecting critical systems for scalability, reliability, and internationalization—enabling global payroll operations at scale.
  • Develop AI- and ML-driven solutions to enhance accuracy, detect anomalies, automate workflows, and minimize manual intervention.
  • Define and execute a long-term architectural vision for Rippling’s global payroll platform, balancing innovation with compliance, stability, and performance.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, finance, legal, compliance, data, and operations teams to deliver cohesive and compliant solutions.
  • Champion customer-focused engineering, ensuring technical solutions directly drive operational excellence and user impact.
  • Mentor and lead engineers, fostering high standards of technical quality, thoughtful design, and engineering best practices.
  • Influence and align stakeholders across multiple teams and time zones, communicating clearly to drive shared product and technical goals.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience building and scaling production systems with Python, Django, React, MongoDB, and AWS, including significant experience operating at the Senior Staff level.
  • Strong product mindset with a focus on impact, reliability, and customer value, combined with strong product instincts and the ability to make independent technical decisions in highly ambiguous environments.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering organizations through technical leadership.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and senior engineering leaders.
  • Proven ability to architect, own, and deliver complex, platform-scale projects end to end.
  • Strong background in data modeling, system design, and modern architecture patterns.
  • Deep platform sensibility—building extensible, compliant solutions for multiple countries.
  • Track record of modernising legacy systems and driving large-scale transformation.
  • Product mindset with focus on impact, reliability, and customer value.
  • Proactive, growth-oriented approach with passion for solving complex global challenges.

Skills

Required:Software architecturePythonDjangoReactMongoDBAWSLeadership

Benefits

  • Environments that value autonomy, innovation, and ownership.
  • Opportunity to influence the architecture of Rippling’s core product pillars.
  • Collaborative, fast-moving culture with direct user engagement and go-to-market involvement.
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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