Senior Software Engineer - Tax Platform

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.84B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of Americas best startup employers by Forbes.

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About The Role

Rippling is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Tax Payments Team. Be a member of a high-impact engineering team for building the foundational platform within payroll organization that enable and support critical flows around payroll processing, approvals, corrections and many more.

At Rippling, we manage over $50+ billion in funds and $15+ billion in taxes annually for thousands of businesses and millions of employees. We’re building a cutting-edge taxation and filing system integrated seamlessly with our payroll software, enabling effortless and precise tax management for our growing client base.

Our systems are designed to scale both horizontally and vertically to support increasing volumes of customers and transactions. The platform processes over 20 million transactional records, ensuring data accessibility across 100+ dimensions. It supports 4,000+ tax types across 1,000+ tax authorities, generating 50+ million unique documents and enabling tax payments exceeding $15 billion annually. The platform’s innovative architecture is built to handle structured and unstructured document processing, with the potential to be utilized across multiple teams within Rippling.

What you’ll do:

• Confidently ship moderate/large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Modeling and executing against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems
• Taking ambiguous technical problem statements and turning them into an actionable plan, and then executing on it with the team
• Implement comprehensive unit tests for confirming functionality and the quality of code. Ensure high-quality code and related documentation.
• Build relationships with teams across engineering, ops, and support, to understand their needs and help improve their day-to-day workflows
  
  

• 6+ years of professional work experience.
• Strong CS knowledge and expertise.
• Preferred experience with Python, Go, Django, MongoDB, Postgres, AWS
• Experience in building projects with good abstractions and architecture