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About the Role
The Payroll Calculation team owns systems that determine earnings, deductions, taxes, and other payroll-related logic. This role involves building the technical foundation for global-scale payroll, designing configurable, versioned, auditable, debuggable, and explainable calculation frameworks. The Staff Software Engineer will lead architectural direction, develop teams, and ensure payroll accuracy and dependability at a global scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical strategy for Rippling’s payroll calculation systems.
- Write critical production code and lead from the front on high-impact technical initiatives.
- Design frameworks that make payroll logic configurable, versioned, testable, explainable, scalable, and easy to debug.
- Leverage AI to make payroll logic easier to build, validate, explain, and operate, without compromising accuracy, auditability, or control.
- Build systems that support enterprise-scale payroll for large employers with complex legal-entity structures and approval workflows.
- Help expand Rippling’s native payroll capabilities across new countries and jurisdictions.
- Drive improvements in distributed systems, database performance, caching, reliability, and operability.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, payroll operations, HRIS, and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across payroll calculation areas such as platform, earnings, deductions, taxes, and jurisdiction-specific logic.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience designing and scaling complex production systems where correctness and auditability are critical.
- Strong engineering fundamentals across architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, caching, and reliability.
- A track record of setting technical direction and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect platform decisions to customer outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort driving alignment across engineering, product, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements evolve quickly.
- Payroll experience is helpful but not required. Engineers who have worked on other high-integrity domains where correctness, auditability, and customer trust are essential are valued.
Work Type
- Office-based (at least three days a week)
Experience Level
- Staff-level
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
About the Company
- Payroll is one of the most mission-critical systems a company runs. It has to be correct, compliant, explainable, scalable, and trusted by every employee who depends on it.
- At Rippling, payroll is also one of our biggest product and engineering frontiers: we’re expanding upmarket to serve much larger companies, scaling internationally across new jurisdictions, and rebuilding core calculation infrastructure for a future where payroll is more automated, transparent, and intelligent.
- Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 information, 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