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Staff Software Engineer - Travel Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, Indiafull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy, architecture, and engineering excellence for Rippling's Tax Platform, overseeing global-scale payroll tax calculations and filings across 4,000+ jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

  • System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; make decisions that define how the platform scales for 50% YoY growth
  • Ownership & Impact: Drive initiatives with function-wide visibility; your work shapes roadmaps and influences company strategy
  • Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish patterns that scale with the organization
  • Reliability & Correctness: Design systems where failure is not an option; build for auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation at scale
  • Global Scale: Tackle architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations
  • Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions; translate business needs into technical strategy

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
  • Proven ability to architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability requirements
  • Deep expertise in any OOP language and experience designing systems that other engineers build on
  • Track record of driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple teams
  • Strong ownership mindset—you see problems through from identification to resolution
  • Rigorous engineering practices with a focus on correctness, testing, and operational excellence
  • Excellent communication skills; ability to represent engineering to leadership and stakeholders

Skills

Required:Software engineering
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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