Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Fintech Platform

RiseMe; San Francisco (CA, WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Fintech Platform to design, build, and scale backend systems powering global payroll and payments infrastructure. You will own high-integrity components, ledgers, reconciliation, and risk controls, while crafting APIs and data models across regions.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, design, and compliance teams, and tackle distributed-systems challenges with a focus on correctness, reliability, and scalable growth.

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, or financial infrastructure.
• Strong judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response.
• Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend systems that power payroll and payments infrastructure.
• Develop high-integrity systems for payroll calculations, ledgers, and risk controls.
• Create platform primitives for country-agnostic tax, compliance, and banking needs.
• Build APIs and data ingestions with correctness guarantees.
• Solve distributed-systems problems with high-volume financial data and state transitions.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and regulatory teams to turn problems into robust systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through code quality and ownership principles.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Project leadership

Fintech domain interest

Observability & fault tolerance

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

MongoDB

Terraform

Go

Python

Job description

About the Fintech Platform

Rippling's Fintech Platform builds the systems that make global payroll and money movement accurate, reliable, and scalable. We turn complex workforce, payroll, tax, compliance, and banking data into payments for employees, tax authorities, and entities worldwide.

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. Teams own foundational capabilities such as payroll orchestration, payment execution, ledgers, reconciliation, treasury, risk, and global compliance.

This is systems work where correctness is tangible: the software you build helps ensure people are paid accurately and on time.

What you will do (focus on one or multiple areas below):

• 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.

What you will need

• 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.

Direct Fintech experience is nice to have but not required.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [e-mail]

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.