Staff Software Engineer — Payroll Payments Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Ops, and Support to translate ambiguous payment-state problems into durable platform capabilities while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for code quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven leadership and ability to drive org-wide impact.
• Strong backend architecture, data modeling, and core services creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for payroll payments engine across multiple countries.
• Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact features from design to production and monitoring.
• Drive roadmap, identify bottlenecks, and implement reliability improvements.
• Tackle ambiguous technical challenges with concrete plans.
• Ensure data integrity across interdependent services and scalable systems.
• Mentor engineers and enforce code quality, testing, and observability best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Ops, and Support to deliver robust platform capabilities.

Skills

Python

Django

Distributed systems

Communication

Independence

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Ops, and Support to translate ambiguous payment-state problems into durable platform capabilities while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for code quality and reliability.