Staff Software Engineer - Tax

Rippling; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the tax platform's technical strategy and architecture. You will drive decisions shaping scalable, reliable systems handling billions in tax calculations across jurisdictions.

You will own key initiatives, set engineering standards, and mentor teams to deliver robust software. Expect high collaboration across product, security, and compliance from a global team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability.
• Deep expertise in any OOP language and building systems others reuse.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; drive scalable designs.
• Own initiatives with cross-team impact and shape roadmaps and strategy.
• Define and uphold engineering standards across teams for scalable, reliable code.
• Design systems with auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation at scale.
• Tackle architectural challenges across multiple countries and jurisdictions.
• Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions translating business needs into tech strategy.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

OOP language

Technical leadership

Communication

Job description

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 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, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500)

About Role

Rippling's Tax Platform is one of only ~5 companies globally that owns the full tax calculation and filing stack. We process over $30 billion in annual payroll for 1 million+ employees—growing 50% year-over-year. Our systems handle millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries, ensuring tax correctness across 4,000+ jurisdictions while staying compliant with constantly changing tax regulations.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy, drive architectural decisions, and shape the future of our tax infrastructure. You'll have function-wide impact and set the standard for engineering excellence across teams.

What You Will Do

• System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; make decisions that define how the platform scales for 50% YoY growth


• Ownership & Impact: Drive initiatives with function-wide visibility; your work shapes roadmaps and influences company strategy


• Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish patterns that scale with the organization


• Reliability & Correctness: Design systems where failure is not an option; build for auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation at scale


• Global Scale: Tackle architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations


• Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions; translate business needs into technical strategy

What You Will Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership


• Proven ability to architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability requirements
  
• Deep expertise in any OOPs language and experience designing systems that other engineers build on


• Track record of driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple teams


• Strong ownership mindset—you see problems through from identification to resolution


• Rigorous engineering practices with a focus on correctness, testing, and operational excellence


• Excellent communication skills; ability to represent engineering to leadership and stakeholders