Staff Platform Engineer – Real-Time Spend Platform

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Spend Platform in New York, NY. You will build a real-time, integrated system that unifies cards, reimbursements, procurement, and travel with accounting and payroll.

You will own architecture, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers to deliver high-impact features. You will design fault-tolerant services, balance consistency and performance, and tackle complex data modeling challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
• Design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Craft platform solutions for Spend Platform used by multiple teams.
• Be hands-on in technical architecture and liaison between product, engineering, and technical workstreams.
• Tackle complex engineering challenges and devise scalable solutions.
• Own projects and drive successful implementation with clear ownership.
• Lead and mentor engineers across Spend Management.
• Contribute to ongoing development of Rippling Spend Platform.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Architecture design

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Real-time policy

Tools

Python

Go

Java

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Spend Platform in New York, NY. You will build a real-time, integrated system that unifies cards, reimbursements, procurement, and travel with accounting and payroll.

You will own architecture, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers to deliver high-impact features. You will design fault-tolerant services, balance consistency and performance, and tackle complex data modeling challenges in a fast-paced environment.