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Staff Software Engineer - Spend Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY / San Francisco, CA)$189k - $315kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior-level backend-focused role building Rippling Spend Platform, a real-time, integrated system that unifies corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel with policy, approvals, and accounting in real time.

Responsibilities

  • Craft exceptional platform solutions that will benefit multiple teams to create a seamless user experience.
  • Be hands-on in technical architecture and be the liaison between product leadership, engineering leadership, and technical workstreams
  • Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
  • Assume clear ownership of your projects, empowering you to make impactful decisions and drive their successful implementation.
  • Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across Spend Management.
  • Immerse yourself in one of Rippling's newest and most influential products, becoming a true authority and contributing to its ongoing development.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
  • Architecture: Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability and know when "eventual consistency" is not enough.
  • High Agency: You thrive in ambiguity. You don't wait for a ticket to be assigned; you identify the business problem, scope the technical solution, and execute.
  • Domain Agility: You have the intellectual curiosity to master the complex domain of treasury and money movement in a matter of days, even if you don't have a background in it.
  • Tech Stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) plus experience with complex data modeling (SQL/NoSQL)

Skills

Required:Backend development
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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