Staff Software Engineer - Spend

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.

• Craft exceptional platform solutions that will benefit multiple teams to create a seamless user experience.
• Be hands-on in technical architecture and be the liaison between between product leadership, engineering leadership, and technical workstreams
• Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Assume clear ownership of your projects, empowering you to make impactful decisions and drive their successful implementation.
• Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across Spend Management.
• Immerse yourself in one of Rippling's newest and most influential products, becoming a true authority and contributing to its ongoing development.

• →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. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability and know when "eventual consistency" is not enough.
• →High Agency: You thrive in ambiguity. You don't wait for a ticket to be assigned; you identify the business problem, scope the technical solution, and execute.
• →Domain Agility: You have the intellectual curiosity to 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)
• →Communication: Ability to convey technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences effectively.