Senior Software Engineer

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.

Rippling has raised $1.85B+

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About the Team: - Rippling PEO (Professional Employer Organization) and HR Services Overview

PEO (Professional Employer Organization)

In the early years, these systems were built at breakneck speed to enable go-to-market growth — fueling massive adoption but introducing tech debt and tightly coupled designs.

Phase L2

Key Responsibilities

• System Reliability:

  Enterprise-grade stability across global employment, benefits, and compliance workflows, with zero critical failures in employee lifecycle operations.

• Extensibility:

  New employment models, jurisdictions, and compliance frameworks added with minimal engineering effort and zero downtime.

• Performance:

  Significant reduction in workflow latency, data synchronization time, and operational overhead across distributed systems.

• Developer Velocity:

  Modular, well-abstracted APIs and frameworks that empower internal teams to build on top of PEO systems without friction.

• Business Impact:

  Faster onboarding for new countries and partners, reduced manual interventions, and measurable improvements in customer satisfaction and retention.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years

  of experience building large-scale, distributed systems in

  high-compliance or high-integrity domains

  (HR, Payroll, FinTech, or Insurance).
• Deep expertise in

  domain-driven design

  ,

  data modeling

  , and

  compliance-first architecture

  .
• Experience

  scaling complex regulatory or multi-tenant systems

  , ideally spanning employment, benefits, or HR platforms.
• Proficiency in designing

  extensible, modular service boundaries

  that maintain

  auditability and backward compatibility

  .
• Strong understanding of

  policy enforcement, rule engines, and event-driven systems

  .
• Ability to translate

  legal and operational complexity

  into

  elegant, maintainable engineering abstractions

  .
• A

  hands-on architectural leader

  who can set technical direction, mentor teams, and drive large-scale transformations sustainably.

Bonus Points

• Experience with

  compliance-as-code

  or

  policy automation

  frameworks.
• Exposure to

  global employment

  ,

  EOR

  , or

  multi-country workforce

  systems.
• Familiarity with

  event sourcing

  ,

  CQRS

  , and

  streaming architectures

  .
• Contributions to

  open-source frameworks

  in HR, compliance, or distributed systems domains.

Why Rippling

• Backed by

  world-class investors (Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Bedrock, GIC, Elad Gil, Goldman Sachs)

• Valued among the

  fastest-growing SaaS companies

  in history
• Built at the core of Rippling’s HR foundation, where

  global employment, compliance, and workforce management

  come together as one seamless system.
• Join a team that

  pushes the limits of possible

  ,

  builds winning systems, and moves fast with conviction.