Software Engineer II - Global Payroll

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 The Role

As a Software Engineer II on the Global Payroll team, you will play a critical role in advancing our global payroll platform to scalably process and pay hundreds of thousands of employees over $50B+ year. This is a great opportunity to shape the platform powering one of Rippling’s core product offerings, and the next billion dollar vertical. You will own and drive initiatives by creating new product functionality from the ground up as well as rearchitecting key components of our platform to help us scale. If you are an experienced engineer looking for high impact and autonomy, come build the future of payroll with us!

What you’ll do

• Design and develop high-quality product software, over the full life cycle of product delivery
• Learn and understand how your product can help Rippling continually differentiate itself
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment. Wear a product manager hat when needed
• Drive innovation toward a world-class platform
• Build features that solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
• Identify and resolve technical issues, conduct system maintenance, and ensure seamless operation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proven experience in designing and developing scalable, distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, MongoDB, AWS.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.