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

Payroll processing is a core platform team that handles all payments, banking, accounting, and reporting-related business logic in Global Payroll. This includes making sure the right amount is paid to each employee at the right time. To further enhance the integrity and efficiency of our operations, our team is also integrating robust risk management to prevent fraudulent activities and building a comprehensive notifications and permissions framework in Global payroll. We manage core payment adjustment infrastructure like rollovers and credits and support different payment methods such as bank transfer, bank file, skipping payments, mailing, or printing checks. Additionally, we are responsible for billing integration to provide a consolidated billing transaction view and for handling payment failures around debits or credits through effective retry/refund flows. We also ensure payroll & payments data is readily available to employees and admins via pay stubs, accounting integration, payroll journals, debit summaries, etc. We provide a unique opportunity for highly motivated individuals to work and ship impactful, user-facing, and challenging projects end-to-end.

What you will do

• Build features that solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Participate in planning activities, perform code reviews, and contribute to a growing team.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Continuously ship incremental updates at a rapid pace
• Participate in an on-call rotation to handle customer and production support

What you will need

• 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, modern design patterns, providing you with a solid foundation to tackle complex technical problems
• Ability to debug and resolve issues autonomously
• Product and customer focused mindset
• Experience with Python, Django and React are a plus

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.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.