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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Financial Product Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Backend Financial Product role at Rippling . 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 thirdparty apps like Slack and Microsoft 365all within 90 seconds. Based in SanFrancisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the worlds top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of Americas 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 Financial Product Team The Financial Product Engineering team is at the forefront of Ripplings expansion into FinTech. Our mission is to build a unified, global financial system for businessesone that is fundamentally integrated with the companys employee, HR, and IT data. We simplify complex, crossfunctional processes like global payroll, corporate spending, and expense management, ensuring businesses have precise control and realtime visibility over all money movement. What We Build Global Payroll: Developing the systems for calculating, filing, and processing payroll across multiple countries, including tax logic, compliance, and direct moneymovement infrastructure. Spend Management: Building the system that gives companies total visibility and control over every dollar they spend. Our platform unifies corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel into one integrated workflow that connects directly to accounting and payroll. Unlike point solutions, Rippling Spend ties policy enforcement, approvals, and accounting in real time, so finance teams can manage spend proactively instead of reconciling it after the facts. Banking & Fintech Infrastructure: Building the simplest, invisible, intelligent financial backbone for global money movement. This platform delivers secure, faulttolerant, scalable primitives for money movement, billing, reconciliation, compliance, and financial intelligence, enabling rapid launch of financial products with minimal effort, and zero disbursement failures or manual intervention. Tax & Compliance Platforms: Designing robust, scalable systems to handle complex, rapidly changing tax and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. We operate in a zero tolerance domain for accuracy, timelines and compliance. Our platform manages calculation, setup, filings and payments of taxes for US and ever expanding international markets. What You Will Do Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities and complex business logic. Ensure all systems are built for highvolume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic decisions about infrastructure and data integrity. Work seamlessly with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, highperformance technical solutions. Elevate the teams technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices. What You Will Need 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar highscale backend language. Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases. Experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale. Strong understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery. Exceptional communication skills with technical and crossfunctional stakeholders. 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 [email protected]. Rippling highly values having employees working inoffice to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For officebased 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 employees role. This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for USbased employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location. A variety of factors are considered when determining someones compensation including a candidates professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below. The pay range for this role is: USD$159,000$278,250 per year (US Tier1) CAD$141,000$246,750 per year (CA) Seniority level: MidSenior level Employment type: Fulltime Job function: Engineering, Information Technology, and Project Management Industries: Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Rippling by 2x. #J-18808-Ljbffr