Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Fintech Platform
About The Position
Rippling’s Fintech Platform builds the systems that make global payroll and money movement accurate, reliable, and scalable. We turn complex workforce, payroll, tax, compliance, and banking data into payments for employees, tax authorities, and entities worldwide. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join the Fintech Platform organization and be matched to a team based on your experience and business needs. Teams own foundational capabilities such as payroll orchestration, payment execution, ledgers, reconciliation, treasury, risk, and global compliance. This is systems work where correctness is tangible: the software you build helps ensure people are paid accurately and on time.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure.
- Strong engineering judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response.
- Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure; experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required.
- Direct Fintech experience is nice to have but not required.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure.
- Develop high-integrity systems for payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls.
- Create country-agnostic platform primitives that can support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across many regions.
- Build APIs and integration layers that ingest complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data with strong correctness guarantees.
- Solve distributed-systems problems involving high-volume financial data, state transitions, retries, and integrations with banks, payroll providers, and regulatory partners.
- Partner closely with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to turn ambiguous business problems into robust technical systems.
- Mentor other engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and clear ownership.
Benefits
- competitive salary + benefits + equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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