Senior Fintech Backend Engineer – Global Payroll

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

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Fintech Platform. You will design, build, and scale backend systems powering global payroll and payments, with emphasis on correctness and performance.

You will work with Go, Python, TypeScript, and tools like Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, and MongoDB, collaborating with product and operations to deliver reliable financial infrastructure while mentoring teammates.

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.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required.

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 design

APIs & data models

Go

Python

TypeScript

Observability

Payments infrastructure

Regulated systems knowledge

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

MongoDB

Terraform

Spark

Flink

React

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Fintech Platform. You will design, build, and scale backend systems powering global payroll and payments, with emphasis on correctness and performance.

You will work with Go, Python, TypeScript, and tools like Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, and MongoDB, collaborating with product and operations to deliver reliable financial infrastructure while mentoring teammates.