Rippling

Rippling

Staff Software Engineer - Ledger

Seattle, WA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
PythonJavaGoBackend DevelopmentSQLNoSQLSnowflakeSparkAccountingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Rippling processes multi-billions of dollars in annual transaction volume, serving as the financial engine for businesses worldwide.
  • As a Staff Engineer on the broader Financial Services team, you will join a lean, high-impact group responsible for the architecture that moves this money.
  • We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our new Money Movement & Treasury architecture hub in Seattle.

Responsibilities

  • Unify the Abstraction: Establish universal primitives across various historically disjointed payment systems to create a single, queryable lifecycle for every dollar moving through our platform.
  • Build the Engine: Develop a reconciliation replay and testing framework, working closely with the payments data team to replace legacy Snowflake-side recon logic.
  • Technical Leadership: Anchor the Seattle site, mentoring a pod of high-performing Senior engineers to build an execution layer decoupled from product feature velocity.
  • Cross Functional Execution: The engineer will work closely and collaborate with the Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting team to understand ledger, tax liability, accounting and regulatory reporting requirements, and to replace legacy Snowflake-side reconciliation logic by developing a reconciliation replay and testing framework.
  • Architecture: Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch.

Requirements

  • You have the intellectual curiosity to master the complex domain of treasury and money movement in a matter of days, even if you don't have a background in it.
  • Domain Agility: You have the intellectual curiosity to master the complex domain of treasury and money movement in a matter of days, even if you don't have a background in it.

Skills

  • Additional Information Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
  • Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

Benefits

  • This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity.
  • It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.

Company info

  • To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.

Equal opportunity

  • Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.

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