Software Engineer, Fintech Platform

Rippling’s Fintech Platform builds systems for global payroll and money movement. The Senior Backend Engineer designs and scales backend infrastructure for payroll, payments, financial data, and compliance, while partnering across teams and mentoring engineers.

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

Skills

• 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
• Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required
• Experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus
• Direct Fintech experience is nice to have

Benefits

• Equity

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