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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA)$168k - $280kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer in Rippling's Fintech Platform focusing on global payroll and payments infrastructure, building high-integrity, scalable systems and APIs for payroll, tax, compliance, and banking data.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure.
  • Develop high-integrity systems for payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls.
  • Create country-agnostic platform primitives that can support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across many regions.
  • Build APIs and integration layers that ingest complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data with strong correctness guarantees.
  • Solve distributed-systems problems involving high-volume financial data, state transitions, retries, and integrations with banks, payroll providers, and regulatory partners.
  • Partner closely with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to turn ambiguous business problems into robust technical systems.
  • Mentor other engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and clear ownership.

Qualifications

  • Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
  • Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure.
  • Strong engineering judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response.
  • Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.
  • Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure; experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systems design

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits + equity
  • Office-based collaboration culture
  • Pay transparency linked for location-based tiers
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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