# 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

- **Id**: 4047258
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rippling-software-engineer-fintech-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:16:35Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:16:35Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2521
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Service & Asset Management, HR & Payroll Software, Procurement & Spend Management

## Company

- **Id**: 15426
- **Name**: Rippling
- **Domain**: rippling.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rippling>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T00:21:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T04:36:07Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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