Senior Software Engineer

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 $1.8B+ 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.

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About the Team

The Tax Payment team is powering the tax remittance of $30 billion+ to 5000+ tax agencies. We ensure taxes are paid on the time. We ensure billions of tax payment across 40+ countries get get remitted on time through automated systems.

We own the end to end lifecycle of tax remittance from salary payout to agency payment and refunds. Our system orchestrate complex tax remittance scenarios across different countries, currencies, and compliance requirements.

We've built intelligent engine to plan the tax remittance to maximize the float income and remitt taxes to 5000+ tax authorities without minimal manual intervention while maintaining strict compliance and audit requirements. We're a mission-critical team where reliability is paramount - every line of code directly impacts people's livelihoods. We solve fascinating problems at the intersection of financial systems, international compliance, and large-scale automation, building fault-tolerant pipelines that handle complex scenarios while scaling globally.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the core tax remittance product that moves $30B+ across 40+ countries and 5000+ tax agencies, with reliability and correctness as first principles.
• Develop and optimize distributed systems that handle high-throughput, multi-currency tax remittances, agency cut-offs, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery at global scale.
• Set the bar for reliability, observability, security, and regulatory/audit readiness in a mission-critical domain where every deployment impacts people's livelihoods.
• Partner closely with Payroll, Banking, Finance Ops, Compliance, and external payment partners/tax agencies to define roadmaps, de-risk launches, and unlock new geographies and products.
• Participate in planning activities, perform code reviews, and contribute to a growing team.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 6+ years of programming experience
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the duties
• Solid experience in architecting backend applications that sit on top of complex business logic.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Infectious passion for solving real customer pain points
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems