Staff Backend Architect - Money Movement & Ledger

Rippling (Netherlands); New York (NY); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Rippling seeks a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle. You will own the design and implementation of a deterministic ledger architecture, ensuring coverage for tax and payment liabilities across the platform.

You will mentor a pod of senior engineers, collaborate with Payments Data, Tax and Accounting teams, and help replace legacy reconciliation logic with a modern, testable framework.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.
• Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments.
• Familiarity with treasury and money movement domain preferred.

Responsabilités

• Architect the Foundation: redesign GL and reconciliation systems for determinism.
• Unify the Abstraction: create universal primitives across payment systems.
• Build the Engine: develop reconciliation replay and testing framework.
• Technical Leadership: anchor Seattle site and mentor senior engineers.
• Cross Functional Execution: collaborate with Payments Data, Tax and Accounting teams.

Connaissances

Backend development

Distributed systems

System architecture

Problem solving

Leadership

Domain knowledge: treasury

Outils

Python

Go

Java

SQL/NoSQL

Spark

Flink

Snowflake

Description du poste

Rippling seeks a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle. You will own the design and implementation of a deterministic ledger architecture, ensuring coverage for tax and payment liabilities across the platform.

You will mentor a pod of senior engineers, collaborate with Payments Data, Tax and Accounting teams, and help replace legacy reconciliation logic with a modern, testable framework.