Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - Financial Product

Rippling; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 246,750; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack, to develop and enhance products for financial systems. The role requires 5+ years of experience with Python and Django, along with familiarity in frontend technologies like React and TypeScript. You will work on complex projects while collaborating closely with product managers and designers. This position offers a competitive pay scale and promotes a culture of excellence within teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Familiarity with front-end development using React or TypeScript.
• Experience shipping complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user-facing features.
• Collaborate closely with PMs and designers to translate product requirements into code.
• Make smart decisions to fill in the gaps where product details aren’t fully defined.

Skills

Python

Django

React

TypeScript

Communication skills

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - Financial Product

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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. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

About the Financial Product Team

The Financial Product Engineering team is at the forefront of Rippling's expansion into FinTech. Our mission is to build a unified, global financial system for businesses—one that is fundamentally integrated with the company's employee, HR, and IT data. We simplify complex, cross‑functional processes like global payroll, corporate spending, and expense management, ensuring businesses have precise control and real‑time visibility over all money movement.

What We Build

• Global Payroll: Developing systems for calculating, filing, and processing payroll across multiple countries, including tax logic, compliance, and direct money movement infrastructure.
• Spend Management: Building a system that gives companies total visibility and control over every dollar they spend. Our platform unifies corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel into one integrated workflow that connects directly to accounting and payroll.
• Banking & FinTech Infrastructure: Building the simplest, invisible, intelligent financial backbone for global money movement. This platform delivers secure, fault‑tolerant, scalable primitives for money movement, billing, reconciliation, compliance, and financial intelligence.
• Tax & Compliance Platforms: Designing robust, scalable systems to handle complex, rapidly changing tax and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions.

What You Will Do

• Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user‑facing features, working across the stack to make them shine.
• Collaborate closely with PMs and designers to translate complex product requirements and visual designs into responsive, high‑quality code.
• Move quickly and confidently, making smart decisions to fill in the gaps where product details aren’t fully defined—always learning from user feedback.
• Play an active role in building a culture of excellence within our product and engineering teams.

What You Will Need

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Familiarity with front‑end development using React or TypeScript.
• Exposure and hands‑on experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
• Strong product intuition: care about design and user experience and are quick to identify how these could be improved.
• Experience shipping complex projects.
• Deep understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders.

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 [e-mail]. 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, as an essential function of the employee's role.

Salary

The pay range for this role is:
USD 159,000 – 278,250 per year (US Tier 1)
CAD 141,000 – 246,750 per year (CA)