Staff Software Engineer - Fintech AI

Rippling · Artificial Intelligence · Financial Services · 10 hours ago
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This job closed on Nov 9, 2026 It was open for one day. Rippling has 30 other roles open.
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Sponsors visas in Ireland; no register of this country names it
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Full-Time

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Rippling

Rippling is an enterprise workforce management and workforce OS platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad and Prasanna Sankar, the company provides a unified software system that manages human resources (HR), information technology (IT), and corporate finance operations. Operating on a B2B SaaS subscription model, Rippling sits on top of a centralized employee data store. Its integrated product suite covers global payroll, employee benefits administration, applicant tracking, device management, corporate expense management, corporate cards, and bill pay.
rippling.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Procurement & Spend Management · IT Service & Asset Management · HR & Payroll Software · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2016
Tech stack of Rippling
Backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital

Rippling is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build AI-native, self-serve payroll onboarding and scalable infrastructure for global market expansion. The role combines LLM-guided user workflows with deterministic backend systems to support accurate payroll setup, compliance, and reusable platform capabilities.


Responsibilities

  • Architect for Global Expansion: Design and build platform infrastructure that empowers country expansion teams to deploy Rippling Payroll into new international markets with minimal friction
  • AI-Driven Workflows: Merge LLMs with rigid, deterministic code. You will build conversational setup experiences that feel human but execute with 100% mathematical and compliance accuracy
  • Deconstruct Complexity: Translate massive, messy regulatory frameworks and payroll setup flows across dozens of jurisdictions into clean, elegant backend systems and seamless product UX
  • Scale the Platform: Own core pieces of a massive transactional system, optimizing for scale, high availability, and bulletproof data integrity

Skills

  • Extensive experience (8+ years) in software engineering, characterized by sustained technical leadership and demonstrating tangible organizational impact
  • Exceptional depth in architecting platform and distributed systems, specifically in building highly observable and resilient architectures at scale
  • Uncompromising hands-on coding proficiency, maintaining active contributions to the codebase alongside high-level strategic responsibilities
  • Proven ability to spearhead cross-functional technical initiatives, driving alignment across integrated engineering and product squads
  • Acute product intuition, with the capability to transform ambiguous requirements into durable platform primitives and extensible primitives
  • Precise and articulate communication skills, capable of distilling complex concepts for diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Resilience in high-velocity environments where the technical roadmap is continuously evolving alongside emerging technology shifts
  • Prior expertise in developing agentic workflows or AI-native systems is highly regarded

Benefits

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Company Overview

  • Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.rippling.com.

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  • Rippling has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 84 in 2026, 83 in 2025, 24 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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