Senior Software Engineer

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. 8B+ 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 Team The Payroll Run Management team is the automation engine powering Rippling's Global Payroll operations. We ensure millions of employees across 40+ countries get paid accurately and on time through automated systems. We own the complete payroll run lifecycle (a payroll run is a batch process that calculates and processes payroll for a group of employees for a specific pay period) - from automatic creation to final processing. Our systems orchestrate complex payroll scenarios (regular runs, terminations, corrections, severance) across different countries, currencies, and compliance requirements. We also manage multiple internal integrations with HRIS systems, Filings, Benefits and other internal payroll components to ensure seamless data flow and processing.We've built intelligent automation that runs 24/7, processing payroll with minimal manual intervention while maintaining strict compliance and audit requirements. We're a mission-critical team where reliability is paramount - every line of code directly impacts people's livelihoods. We solve fascinating problems at the intersection of financial systems, international compliance, and large-scale automation, building fault-tolerant pipelines that handle complex scenarios while scaling globally. About The Role

You’ll be part of the Travel team, helping to define the future of corporate travel through the Rippling Platform’s integrated solutions. As part of Rippling’s Spend Suite—which also includes corporate cards, expense management, procurement, and bill pay—the Travel team is integral to our all-in-one solution for managing corporate spending.

Our customers value the seamless integration of corporate cards, expense management, and accounting automation, with travel management as the next frontier. Our mission is to build the best travel management platform for employees, finance teams, and travel managers alike. Currently in its alpha phase, the travel product is set to launch in 2025.

About the role

Are you looking to be in a role where you can have a significant impact on the company's growth and success? Does the prospect of making the most pragmatic technical decisions, which will drastically shape the future of the products excite you? The Global Payroll organization is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Payroll Run Management team - one of the most critical and strategic teams powering Rippling's payroll infrastructure that ensures millions of employees across 40+ countries get paid accurately and on time.

• Own complete feature development for payroll run systems, from initial design through implementation and post-launch improvements

• Architect and build systems that orchestrate complex payroll scenarios (regular payroll runs, corrections, terminations, etc.) across multiple countries and compliance requirements
• Manage complex integrations with HRIS systems, Filings, Benefits and other internal payroll components to ensure seamless data flow and processing
• Lead incident response and on-call responsibilities as an incident commander for payroll systems, performing postmortem analysis across multiple stacks and driving action items to completion to prevent future failures.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Support, other engineering teams and international teams to deliver critical payroll capabilities

• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence standards around code quality, testing and system reliability across the team

• Shape product direction by working directly with stakeholders to understand complex international payroll requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional work experience in a high paced environment building large-scale systems

• Strong expertise in Python and Django - essential for building services in our payroll infrastructure

• Experience with MongoDB and designing scalable database architectures for high volume financial data

• Proven track record in building fault tolerant systems that require 99.99%+ uptime and handle mission-critical operations

• Strong CS fundamentals and data structures knowledge with a keen eye for writing optimized, performant code

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills - ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues autonomously in distributed systems

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing solutions

• Knowledge of workflow orchestration and state management for complex multi-step processes

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