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Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Calculation

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Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Calculation in USA new

  • Rippling
  • Full time
  • Email
  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and technical strategy for payroll calculation systems.
  • Write critical production code and lead high-impact technical initiatives.
  • Design configurable, versioned, testable, explainable, scalable, and debuggable payroll logic frameworks.
  • Leverage AI to improve payroll logic development, validation, explanation, and operations while preserving accuracy and auditability.
  • Build systems for enterprise-scale payroll involving complex legal-entity structures and approval workflows.
  • Expand native payroll capabilities across countries and jurisdictions.
  • Improve distributed systems, database performance, caching, reliability, and operability.
  • Partner with product, design, payroll operations, HRIS, and engineering teams to deliver customer outcomes.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across payroll calculation domains.

Requirements

  • Staff-level experience designing and scaling complex production systems where correctness and auditability are critical.
  • Strong fundamentals in architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, caching, and reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and lead complex initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Strong product judgment and ability to connect platform decisions to customer outcomes.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to align engineering, product, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and requirements.
  • Payroll experience is helpful but not required; experience in other high-integrity domains is valued.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, benefits, and equity are offered.
  • Office-based employees within the defined radius of a Rippling office are expected to work in the office at least three days per week under current policy.
  • Rippling is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.

Salary: $189k - $315k/yr

Rippling

Current simplifies how businesses manage HR, IT, and Finance by integrating all workforce systems into one platform. This unified approach streamlines processes like payroll, benefits, and expenses, allowing companies to automate the entire employee lifecycle efficiently.

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