Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - Financial Product

Financial Product Engineering

Rippling is expanding into FinTech and building a unified, global financial system for businesses. Our mission is to simplify complex, cross-functional processes like global payroll, corporate spending, and expense management.

• Global Payroll: Systems for calculating, filing, and processing payroll across multiple countries, including tax logic, compliance, and direct money movement infrastructure.
• Spend Management: A unified platform for corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel, connecting directly to accounting and payroll. Policy enforcement, approvals, and real-time accounting.
• Banking & Fintech Infrastructure: Secure, fault-tolerant, scalable primitives for money movement, billing, reconciliation, compliance, and financial intelligence. Minimal effort for rapid launch of financial products with zero disbursement failures or manual intervention.
• Tax & Compliance Platforms: Robust, scalable systems for handling complex, rapidly changing tax and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. Zero tolerance for accuracy, timelines, and compliance. Calculation, setup, filings, and payments of taxes for US and expanding international markets.

Responsibilities

Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user-facing features, working across the stack to make them shine.

Collaborate closely with PMs and designers to translate complex product requirements and visual designs into responsive, high-quality code.

Move quickly and confidently, making smart decisions to fill in the gaps where product details aren’t fully defined—always learning from user feedback.

Play an active role in building a culture of excellence within our product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Familiarity in frontend development with React or TypeScript.
• Exposure and hands-on experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
• Strong product intuition: you care about design and user experience and are quick to identify how these could be improved.
• Experience shipping complex projects.
• Deep understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders.

Qualifications

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We 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 accomodations@rippling.com.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is: 159,000 - 278,250 USD per year (US Tier 1) 156,000 - 260,000 CAD per year (CA) 168,000 - 280,000 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)

Engineering

San Francisco, CA

Toronto, Canada

Seattle, WA