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About Role
Ripplings 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 employeesgrowing 50% year-over-year. Our systems handle millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries ensuring tax correctness across 4000 jurisdictions while staying compliant with constantly changing tax regulations.
Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy drive architectural decisions and shape the future of our tax infrastructure. Youll have function-wide impact and set the standard for engineering excellence across teams.
- System Design: Lead architecture for mission-critical systems handling billions in tax calculations; make decisions that define how the platform scales for 50% YoY growth
- Ownership & Impact: Drive initiatives with function-wide visibility; your work shapes roadmaps and influences company strategy
- Engineering Excellence: Define and champion engineering standards across teams; establish patterns that scale with the organization
- Reliability & Correctness: Design systems where failure is not an option; build for auditability correctness and graceful degradation at scale
- Global Scale: Tackle architectural challenges of processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4000 jurisdictions and evolving regulations
- Technical Leadership: Be the technical voice in cross-functional decisions; translate business needs into technical strategy
- 8 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
- Proven ability to architect large-scale distributed systems with high reliability requirements
- Deep expertise in any OOPs language and experience designing systems that other engineers build on
- Track record of driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple teams
- Strong ownership mindsetyou see problems through from identification to resolution
- Rigorous engineering practices with a focus on correctness testing and operational excellence
- Excellent communication skills; ability to represent engineering to leadership and stakeholders
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About Company
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 manua ... View more
