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Staff Software Engineer - Run Management

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$189k - $330.8kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead technical architecture and end-to-end delivery for Rippling’s global payroll calculation engine, driving scalable backend systems, performance, reliability, and platform-wide solutions in a mission-critical product.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture for the next generation of our global payroll calculation engine, designing scalable frameworks that support operations across multiple countries.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of high-impact, complex features, from initial design and technical specifications through to production deployment and monitoring.
  • Drive the technical roadmap for the Calculations team, identifying and tackling performance bottlenecks, reliability improvements, and architectural refactors.
  • Take on ambiguous technical challenges (e.g., "design a system to support any country's tax model") and turn them into concrete, actionable plans for the team.
  • Exercise expert technical judgment in building scalable, maintainable, and extensible systems, ensuring data integrity across complex and interdependent services.
  • Raise the engineering bar for the entire organization by mentoring senior and junior engineers, leading in-depth design reviews, and championing best practices for code quality, testing, and observability.
  • Collaborate across functions with Product Management, HRIS, and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive, platform-wide solutions.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership and driving org-wide impact.
  • Expertise in building large-scale, distributed backend systems. Strong proficiency in Python and Django is highly preferred.
  • Experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.
  • Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and building core services with clean abstractions.
  • A keen product sense and a passion for advocating for the customer, with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.
  • Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse functional teams.
  • Experience with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases is a strong plus.

Skills

Required:architecture designbackend developmentend-to-end deliveryleadership & mentoring

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits
  • Equity
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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