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Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, IndiaFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and delivering scalable, reliable tax calculation and filing systems within Rippling’s Tax Platform, impacting millions of tax calculations across 4,000+ jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

  • System Design: Architect scalable, reliable systems that handle billions of dollars in tax calculations with zero tolerance for error
  • Ownership & Impact: Own features end-to-end—from design through production—with direct visibility into business outcomes
  • Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for code quality, testing practices, and technical documentation within your team
  • Reliability & Correctness: Build systems where accuracy is non-negotiable; a single bug can mean compliance failures across thousands of companies
  • Global Scale: Solve challenges unique to processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations
  • Collaboration: Partner with compliance, product, and platform teams to translate complex tax requirements into elegant technical solutions

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong system design skills with experience building distributed, high-reliability systems
  • Proficiency in Python; experience with Django or similar frameworks that follow the MVC pattern (layered architecture)
  • Track record of owning and delivering impactful projects autonomously
  • Rigorous approach to correctness—you write tests, handle edge cases, and think about failure modes
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex problem spaces
  • Clear communication and ability to influence technical decisions

Skills

Required:Software EngineeringPythonDjango or MVC frameworkSystem DesignTesting and QualityCommunication
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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