Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

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Key Responsibilities

Architect scalable,

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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.

What We Offer

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Rippling's Tax Platform is one of only ~5 companies globally that owns the full tax calculation and filing stack. We process over $30 billion in annual payroll for 1 million+ employees—growing 50% year-over-year. Our systems handle millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries, ensuring tax correctness across 4,000+ jurisdictions while staying compliant with constantly changing tax regulations.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who takes ownership of complex problems, designs robust systems, and delivers high-quality solutions that directly impact millions of tax calculations.

Responsibilities

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→System Design: Architect scalable, reliable systems that handle billions of dollars in tax calculations with zero tolerance for error
→Ownership & Impact: Own features end-to-end—from design through production—with direct visibility into business outcomes
→Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for code quality, testing practices, and technical documentation within your team
→Reliability & Correctness: Build systems where accuracy is non-negotiable; a single bug can mean compliance failures across thousands of companies
→Global Scale: Solve challenges unique to processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations
→Collaboration: Partner with compliance, product, and platform teams to translate complex tax requirements into elegant technical solutions

→5+ years of software engineering experience
→Strong system design skills with experience building distributed, high-reliability systems
→Proficiency in Python; experience with Django or similar frameworks that follow the MVC pattern (layered architecture).
→Track record of owning and delivering impactful projects autonomously
→Rigorous approach to correctness—you write tests, handle edge cases, and think about failure modes
→Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex problem spaces
→Clear communication and ability to influence technical decisions

Nice to Have

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Experience in fintech, payroll, or tax domains
Background in compliance-critical systems where correctness is paramount
Experience with domain-specific languages or rule engines
Familiarity with MongoDB, Temporal, or event-driven architectures

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 accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based 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 employee's role.