Staff Engineer, Money Movement & Ledger Architecture

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor the Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle. You will own the design and implementation of a deterministic ledger system and build a reconciliation framework to ensure accurate tax and payment liabilities.

You will lead a team of Senior engineers, shaping the foundation for universal primitives across payment systems and driving cross-functional collaboration with Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience in backend and distributed systems.
• Ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with treasury domain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Foundation: Redesign our General Ledger and reconciliation systems to eliminate silent failures and to be deterministic.
• Unify the Abstraction: Establish universal primitives across various historically disjointed payment systems to create a single, queryable lifecycle for every dollar moving through our platform.
• Build the Engine: Develop a reconciliation replay and testing framework, working closely with the payments data team to replace legacy Snowflake-side recon logic.
• Technical Leadership: Anchor the Seattle site, mentoring a pod of high-performing Senior engineers to build an execution layer decoupled from product feature velocity.
• Cross Functional Execution: Collaborate with the Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting teams to understand ledger, tax liability, accounting and regulatory reporting requirements, and replace legacy Snowflake-side reconciliation logic by developing a reconciliation replay and testing framework.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

System design

Problem solving

High agency

Domain agility

Data modeling

Tools

Python

Go

Java

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

Flink

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor the Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle. You will own the design and implementation of a deterministic ledger system and build a reconciliation framework to ensure accurate tax and payment liabilities.

You will lead a team of Senior engineers, shaping the foundation for universal primitives across payment systems and driving cross-functional collaboration with Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting teams.