Senior Backend Engineer — Global Payroll & Payments

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

In-office collaboration

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Fintech Platform team building global payroll and payments infrastructure. You will design and scale backend systems, implement APIs, and work with product, design, and operations to ship robust financial software.

Based in San Francisco, Rippling offers equity and a comprehensive benefits package, with a policy favoring in-office collaboration three days a week to drive alignment and impact across teams.

Qualifications

• 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; 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 engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

MongoDB

Terraform

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Fintech Platform team building global payroll and payments infrastructure. You will design and scale backend systems, implement APIs, and work with product, design, and operations to ship robust financial software.

Based in San Francisco, Rippling offers equity and a comprehensive benefits package, with a policy favoring in-office collaboration three days a week to drive alignment and impact across teams.