Software Engineer, Fintech Platform

Rippling•San Francisco, CA

15h•$135,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Software Engineer, Fintech Platform role focuses on designing, building, and scaling backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure. The engineer may work across areas such as payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls, while developing platform primitives that support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across regions. The role also involves building APIs and integration layers for complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data, and solving distributed-systems challenges involving high-volume financial data, state transitions, retries, and external integrations. The engineer partners with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to translate ambiguous business problems into robust technical systems. They are expected to mentor engineers and promote strong technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and clear ownership. Rippling values in-office collaboration. Employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office are currently expected to work in the SFO office at least three days a week. The role offers competitive salary, benefits, and equity; US salary ranges vary by location.

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.
Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure.
Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful but not required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems.
Direct fintech experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale backend systems for 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 support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across regions.
Build APIs and integration layers for 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 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.