Senior Backend Engineer - Global Payroll & Payments

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rippling’s Fintech Platform builds the systems that make global payroll and money movement accurate, reliable, and scalable. 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.

This role involves designing, building, and scaling backend systems for payroll, payments, ledgers, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls, while collaborating with product, design, and operations teams to deliver robust

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure.
• Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure; experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus.

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 systems

Distributed systems

APIs

Code quality

Go

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

Security

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Spark

Flink

MongoDB

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Rippling’s Fintech Platform builds the systems that make global payroll and money movement accurate, reliable, and scalable. 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.

This role involves designing, building, and scaling backend systems for payroll, payments, ledgers, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls, while collaborating with product, design, and operations teams to deliver robust