Senior Backend Engineer, Global Payroll & Payments

Jobs in JS; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale core payroll and payments infrastructure for a global fintech platform. You will work on high-integrity systems handling payroll calculations, ledgers, and reconciliation, while creating country-agnostic primitives for diverse tax and banking requirements.

You will collaborate with product, design, and compliance teams to convert complex business problems into robust technical solutions and mentor peers to raise the

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure.
• Strong judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response.
• Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.
• Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure; payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, 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 support local tax, compliance, banking, and payroll across 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 bank/payroll-provider/regulatory integrations.
• Partner with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to turn business problems into robust technical systems.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical design, code quality, and ownership.

Skills

Backend scaling

Distributed systems design

APIs

Data modeling

Event-driven workflows

Fintech familiarity

Leadership/mentoring

Observability

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

MongoDB

Spark

Flink

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale core payroll and payments infrastructure for a global fintech platform. You will work on high-integrity systems handling payroll calculations, ledgers, and reconciliation, while creating country-agnostic primitives for diverse tax and banking requirements.

You will collaborate with product, design, and compliance teams to convert complex business problems into robust technical solutions and mentor peers to raise the