Senior Staff Engineer - Finance Products

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About Team: Tax Platform

The tax platform org scales our ability to compliantly work with thousands of agencies and taxes globally. Supporting a filing platform serving a large internal operations team, the team is critical in driving tax filing and payment correctness and timeliness.

What you will do

The technical challenges we are facing are complex. We need a seasoned technical expert who has built complex platforms for global technology companies before. Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a technical leader within the engineering organization.
• Identifying and advocating for projects of high complexity that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and turning them into an actionable plan, and then executing on it with the team.
• Modeling and executing against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to employment rules, country-specific requirements, international currencies, and more.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be expected to dive in deep and emerge with a written plan for execution that represents the collective needs of multiple teams.
• Actively participate in coding and code reviews, using languages such as Python, Golang, and Java.
• Mentor and support engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Develop and maintain systems with high availability and reliability
• Implement comprehensive observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure system health and performance

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Deep experience in product and platform engineering
• You have seen systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture
• Comfortable at developing scalable and extendable core services used in many products
• Expertise building complex, distributed services with Python, Golang, or Java
• Strong CS knowledge
• Bonus points if you’ve previously worked with AWS
• You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact