Senior Software Engineer-Payments

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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The Payments platform team's mission is to move money quickly and reliably across countries and currencies. As one of Rippling's most mission-critical systems, we're responsible for moving tens of billions of dollars annually, with much of it for Payroll, which caters to millions of employees in over 40 countries. Other products that exclusively use the Payments platform include Tax Platform, Billing, Bill Pay, and Travel, among others. Our ultimate goal is for all money moved through Rippling to be orchestrated by our platform.

Rippling's global expansion is largely dependent on the payment rails we offer. For instance, Payroll can only expand to onboard employees in New Zealand if our platform can move money from USD to NZD. This involves integrating with FX vendors, banks (like Citi or JPM), and third-party fintech solutions (like Nium or Airwallex).

As a platform, we put incredible emphasis on reliability, especially since our features depend on third-party systems. We process close to 1 million transactions within a few hours during peak times, and even a single dropped or delayed payment can mean an employee doesn't get their paycheck on time. That's why our team takes pride in what we've built and holds a very high bar for reliability. Fault tolerance and scalability are a core part of our design phase, not an afterthought. For engineers looking to create a tangible business impact and step up to a big challenge, this team is one of the best places to be.

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? Our Finance Platform org is looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team - arguably Rippling's most mission critical system powering Rippling's payroll infrastructure that ensures millions of employees across 40+ countries get paid accurately and on time.

• Own complete feature development for Payments systems, from initial design through implementation and post-launch improvements. Rippling engineers are expected to own and drive outcomes rather than just owning feature deployment.
• Proactively find gaps in the platform with respect to scalability and reliability. Come up with solutions and make design decisions based on objective tradeoff analysis. Take implementations of such solutions to closure while ensuring stability of the platform.
• Architect and build systems that orchestrate complex payment rails (FX orders, banking integrations, vendor/aggregator integrations, wallet transactions) across multiple countries and currencies.
• Manage and enhance integrations with Payroll, Tax Platform and other product teams to make sure we develop new functionalities while keeping a high bar for system extensibility and reliability.
• Lead incident response and on-call responsibilities as an incident commander for Payment platform, 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 platform capabilities
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence standards around code quality, testing and system reliability across the team.
• Shape platform vision and direction by working directly with stakeholders to understand product requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions

Qualifications

• 6+ 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
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring junior engineers, taking accountability for their project deliverables.
• 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

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 dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email

We highly value in-office collaboration to foster a cohesive work environment and company culture. For employees residing within a defined radius of a Rippling office, working on-site at least three days a week is considered an essential function of the role.

This position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and equity opportunities. The exact salary will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and location.

Join us at Rippling and be a part of transforming how businesses manage performance-based compensation.