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 $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the Team

The Finance Platform Organization at Rippling is seeking a strong Software Engineer to join the Compliance and Accounting team. This team is responsible for managing KYC compliance, Anti-Money Laundering controls, Payment Reconciliation, General Ledger. 

Key projects include: 

i) Building robust systems that handle sanction screening, financial institution screening, geographical screening, PEP screening, and transaction monitoring and incorporate more anti money laundering controls.

ii) Ensuring compliance controls for payments, wallet and card transactions worth of 1 billion, ensuring fault tolerance, and preventing any delays in the payment process.

iii) KYC onboarding flow for contractors; 

iv) Integrating the General Ledger with all Rippling products to track financial money movements with at most 100% accuracy. 

These systems are essential as Rippling continues to grow globally, ensuring customer success.

About the Role

We're looking for talented engineers to join Rippling's Compliance and Accounting team and contribute to high-impact projects. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to become an autonomous engineer at Rippling, with high visibility projects and growth opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of Rippling's finance platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design scalable systems, enhance existing features, and drive innovation in our product offerings, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable financial services to our customers. 

Your role will involve an outstanding blend of business and technical savviness, the ability to look into and build a big-picture vision, and make that vision a reality. This is a high ownership, impact, and visibility role building a product that will directly impact Rippling’s growth.

This role will play a pivotal part in designing, developing, and maintaining a robust compliance and accounting system. If you're passionate about building innovative solutions in the financial technology landscape and thrive in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What you’ll do

• Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain compliance protocols, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, anti-money laundering controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with product managers, senior/staff engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements, and deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Translate high-level business requirements into a software design and communicate the designs to the other developers in the team.
• Identify and resolve technical issues, conduct system maintenance, and ensure seamless operation of payment systems.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, and test plans.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the FinTech industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proven experience in designing and developing scalable, distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python, Django, MongoDB, AWS.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

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

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.  For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.