Staff Software Engineer - Financial Ledger Systems

Overview

Rippling processes multi-billions of dollars in annual transaction volume, serving as the financial engine for businesses worldwide. This role will anchor the Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Foundation: Redesign our General Ledger and reconciliation systems to eliminate silent failures and to be deterministic.
• Unify the Abstraction: Establish universal primitives across various historically disjointed payment systems to create a single, queryable lifecycle for every dollar moving through our platform.
• Build the Engine: Develop a reconciliation replay and testing framework, working closely with the payments data team to replace legacy Snowflake-side recon logic.
• Technical Leadership: Anchor the Seattle site, mentoring a pod of high-performing Senior engineers to build an execution layer decoupled from product feature velocity.
• Cross Functional Execution: Work closely and collaborate with the Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting team to understand ledger, tax liability, accounting and regulatory reporting requirements, and to replace legacy Snowflake-side reconciliation logic by developing a reconciliation replay and testing framework.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
• Architecture: Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch. Understands the trade-offs between consistency and availability and knows when "eventual consistency" is not enough.
• High Agency: Thrives in ambiguity. Identifies the business problem, scopes the technical solution, and executes.
• Domain Agility: Master the complex domain of treasury and money movement in a matter of days, even if you don't have a background in it.
• Tech Stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) plus experience with complex data modeling (SQL/NoSQL) and data processing framework (Spark/Flink).

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of financial systems, treasury operations, and payment processing.
• Experience with financial regulations and compliance.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + benefits + equity.
• Flexible work schedule, including the option to work remotely.
• Collaborative work environment and company culture.
• Equal opportunity employer.

Pay

• The pay range for this role is: 189,000 - 330,750 USD per year (US Tier 1).

Schedule

• Full-time position.

Location

Seattle, WA