Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Fintech Platform

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

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.