Senior Backend Engineer - Fintech Payroll & Payments

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure. You will own high-integrity components for payroll calculations, ledgers, and payments, building APIs that ingest cross-system data with strong correctness guarantees.

You will create country-agnostic primitives supporting local tax, compliance and banking rules, while mentoring peers and collaborating with product, design, and operations teams to drive

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
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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.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Leadership

Fintech interest

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Spark

Flink

MongoDB

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Spark

Flink

MongoDB

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure. You will own high-integrity components for payroll calculations, ledgers, and payments, building APIs that ingest cross-system data with strong correctness guarantees.

You will create country-agnostic primitives supporting local tax, compliance and banking rules, while mentoring peers and collaborating with product, design, and operations teams to drive