About the Team

The Finance Products Organization at Rippling is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Finance Platform division which handles billions of dollars in transactions per month. This team oversees vital product lines including payments, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, anti-money laundering controls, as well as accounting and financial reporting systems. These systems are pivotal to ensuring our customers achieve success.

This role is a great opportunity to be a key technical leader at Rippling with high visibility 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 architect 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 robust payment systems while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. 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

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain compliance protocols, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, anti-money laundering controls, and regulatory requirements.

• Tackle complex engineering challenges, leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.

• Continuously innovate and optimize payment processes to enhance efficiency, user experience, and system performance.

• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements, contribute to architectural decisions, 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.

• Review and share feedback on code, features, technology, architecture, and designs. Drive the standards around code quality and testing across your product.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, best practices, and continuous learning within 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, architecture diagrams, 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.

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languages.

• 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.

• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Preferred experience in high performance organization, preferably a tech startup.

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.