Staff Software Engineer - Bill Pay, Banking & Procurement

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

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Bill Pay, Banking, and Procurement to lead core infrastructure and tools that enable real-time financial operations. You will drive architecture for high-scale money movement and serve as a bridge between product and engineering leadership.

You will mentor engineers, shape technical roadmaps, and own outcomes across mission-critical systems. This role requires deep full-stack experience and a track record of delivering robust financial software

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch.
• Strong ownership of outcomes for business and technical success.
• Proficiency with modern coding languages and AI tools; quick to learn new tech.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical leader for Procurement, Bill Pay, and Banking product areas, ensuring architecture and stability.
• Drive hands-on architecture and design for large-scale, fault-tolerant money-movement systems.
• Translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and drive high-impact projects.
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising quality and improving team processes.

Skills

Full-stack development

System architecture

Leadership

Mentorship

Financial systems knowledge

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Bill Pay, Banking & Procurement

Rippling New York, New York, United States

About this position

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

About the role

We are the team building the core infrastructure and tools to manage a company's financial operations, focusing on Procurement, Bill Pay, and Banking products. Our mission is to save companies time and money by enforcing policies, intelligently routing approvals, moving real funds, and syncing to accounting books in real time. The team manages systems that move billions of dollars via direct integrations with financial systems all while taking advantage of the Rippling platform built on top of the employee database and object graph.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical leader for the Procurement, Bill Pay, and Banking product areas, ensuring the architectural integrity and stability required for sustainable growth.
• Drive the hands-on technical architecture and design for large-scale, fault-tolerant systems that handle money movement.
• Be the liaison between product and engineering leadership, translating business objectives into technical roadmaps and executing high-impact projects.
• Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across the team, raising the bar for engineering quality and process in mission-critical financial systems.

What you will need

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in full-stack development and building products end-to-end.
• Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch while balancing trade-offs between business objectives and technical decisions.
• Able to solve large, ambiguous problems with high agency, all while taking full ownership of the outcome from a business and technical perspective.
• Proficiency with modern coding languages and AI tools with the ability to learn new skills and technologies quickly as needed.
• Capable of multiplying the impact of others by resolving blockers, improving team processes and systems, and growing other engineers via mentorship and hands-on coaching

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.

Salary Information

The pay range for this role is:
189,000 - 315,000 USD per year(US Tier 1)