Staff Software Engineer — Payroll Payments Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer for Payroll Payments to shape the unified processing core for payroll money movement, ensuring reliable, scalable fund transfers at global scale.

You will lead architecture, own end-to-end delivery of high-impact features, and drive the technical roadmap while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product, Risk, and Payroll teams to deliver durable, user-friendly solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise in building large-scale, distributed backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Django is highly preferred.
• Experience with transforming requirements into production-grade features.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture for the next generation of the payroll payments engine.
• Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact, complex features from design to production deployment.
• Drive the technical roadmap for the Payroll processing team and improve performance and reliability.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers, conduct design reviews, and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Ops, and Support to build durable platform capabilities.

Skills

Python

Django

Distributed backend

MongoDB

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Rippling in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer for Payroll Payments to shape the unified processing core for payroll money movement, ensuring reliable, scalable fund transfers at global scale.

You will lead architecture, own end-to-end delivery of high-impact features, and drive the technical roadmap while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product, Risk, and Payroll teams to deliver durable, user-friendly solutions.