About Rippling

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.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.85B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil and Goldman Sachs—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Team

Financial Integrity team at Rippling is on a mission to safeguard the integrity of every financial transaction across Rippling products. We operate at the intersection of finance and engineering, ensuring that all money movements across Rippling are accurate, compliant and reliable.

The team is structured into four key focus areas:

• Financial Crime Compliance - Ensure all Rippling financial products meet regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, maintaining strict adherence to government regulations.
• Credit Risk - Actively identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to fraud activities, credit exposure and financial anomalies across critical products like Payroll , EOR, COR and Spend, etc.
• KYC & Onboarding - Deliver a secure and seamless onboarding experience through strong KYC (Know Your Customer/Business) compliance and automation, ensuring only verified and trustworthy entities enter our ecosystem.
• Financial Integration Platform - Build and scale a robust integration platform that connects financial systems, internal products and external partners, enabling secure data exchange, streamlined operations and faster product expansion.

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity for exceptional staff engineers/architects to build, scale and lead a high-performing team at the heart of Finance, Risk, Compliance and KYC. You will set the technical vision, drive execution and take ownership of mission-critical systems that demand uncompromising reliability, scalability and accuracy. Beyond delivering features, you will shape strategy, develop strong engineers, influence product direction and solve complex problems with measurable business impact. 

If you are ready to lead with conviction and build a world-class Finance Platform, this is the team for you.

About the Role

Join us as a Staff Engineer on Financial Integrity team and help shape the future of Rippling’s finance platform. This high-visibility opportunity combines deep technical expertise, ambition, and product judgment within a critical function that directly supports Rippling’s growth. You will design and build scalable, reliable, and compliant financial systems while setting the technical direction for complex, business-critical initiatives.

Your role will require a strong blend of business and technical acumen, the ability to develop a big-picture vision, and the drive to turn that vision into reality. You will work across teams to solve challenging architectural problems, improve existing systems, and deliver products that have a direct and measurable impact on Rippling’s growth.

This role demands strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to balance long-term architectural goals with immediate business priorities. You will drive execution, champion engineering excellence, raise the technical bar, and mentor engineers across the organization. If you are excited to solve complex problems and define the technical foundation of financial integrity at Rippling, we would love to hear from you.

What you will do

• Architect and evolve the systems that power Financial Integrity, ensuring Rippling’s financial transactions are accurate, reliable, secure, compliant, and fully auditable.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Bring a founder’s mindset to identify opportunities, challenge conventional approaches, and drive innovation across risk, compliance, KYC/Onboarding and financial operations.
• Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for the team, partnering with product, engineering, operation team, and risk/compliance leaders to shape priorities and outcomes.
• Design and build scalable distributed systems that support high transaction volumes, automated controls and failure recovery.
• Raise the engineering bar for system correctness, observability, security, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from early technical exploration through successful delivery, proactively identifying risks and resolving ambiguity.
• Develop automated solutions that improve operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention and enable the organization to scale with the business.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams through architecture reviews, design guidance and strong engineering practices.
• Foster a culture of ownership, high standards and measurable customer and business impact.

What you will need

We're looking for a Staff Engineer who has a strong technical-foundation, and thrives in high-ownership environments. 

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for defining architecture and leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives.
• Technical Expertise: Deep hands-on experience building backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-throughput data or transaction-processing pipelines.
• Financial Systems: Experience designing systems where correctness, reliability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance are critical. Experience with payments, ledgers, risk, or compliance systems is preferred.
• Architecture and Scalability: Proven ability to design scalable systems, make sound architectural trade-offs, and establish a long-term technical direction while addressing immediate business needs.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to lead through influence, raise engineering standards, guide design and code reviews, and mentor engineers without direct management responsibility.
• Execution: Strong track record of translating a technical vision into clear milestones, managing risks and dependencies, and driving complex initiatives to successful outcomes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven ability to partner effectively with product, engineering, finance, operations, risk, and compliance stakeholders across regions and time zones.
• Communication: Ability to communicate technical concepts, architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional Information

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 accomodations@rippling.com