Senior Staff Engineer - Global Payroll

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.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and scaling production systems with Python, Django, React, MongoDB, and AWS, including significant experience operating at the Senior Staff level.
• Strong product mindset with a focus on impact, reliability, and customer value, combined with strong product instincts and the ability to make independent technical decisions in highly ambiguous environments.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering organizations through technical leadership
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and senior engineering leaders
• Proven ability to architect, own, and deliver complex, platform-scale projects end to end.
• Strong background in data modeling, system design, and modern architecture patterns.
• Deep platform sensibility—building extensible, compliant solutions for multiple countries.
• Track record of modernising legacy systems and driving large-scale transformation.
• Product mindset with focus on impact, reliability, and customer value.
• Proactive, growth-oriented approach with passion for solving complex global challenges.

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 accommodations@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.