Senior Software Engineer

About the Team

The Tax Payment team is powering the tax remittance of $30 billion to 5000 tax agencies. We ensure taxes are paid on the time. We ensure billions of tax payment across 40 countries get get remitted on time through automated systems.

We own the end to end lifecycle of tax remittance from salary payout to agency payment and refunds. Our system orchestrate complex tax remittance scenarios across different countries currencies and compliance requirements.

Weve built intelligent engine to plan the tax remittance to maximize the float income and remitt taxes to 5000 tax authorities without minimal manual intervention while maintaining strict compliance and audit requirements. Were a mission-critical team where reliability is paramount - every line of code directly impacts peoples livelihoods. We solve fascinating problems at the intersection of financial systems international compliance and large-scale automation building fault-tolerant pipelines that handle complex scenarios while scaling globally.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the core tax remittance product that moves $30B across 40 countries and 5000 tax agencies with reliability and correctness as first principles.
• Develop and optimize distributed systems that handle high-throughput multi-currency tax remittances agency cut-offs retries reconciliation and failure recovery at global scale.
• Set the bar for reliability observability security and regulatory/audit readiness in a mission-critical domain where every deployment impacts peoples livelihoods.
• Partner closely with Payroll Banking Finance Ops Compliance and external payment partners/tax agencies to define roadmaps de-risk launches and unlock new geographies and products.
• Participate in planning activities perform code reviews and contribute to a growing team.
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.

• Minimum 7 years of programming experience
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of the duties
• Solid experience in architecting backend applications that sit on top of complex business logic.
• Preferred experience in our technology stack- Python Django React MongoDB AWS
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
• Infectious passion for solving real customer pain points
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems

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

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 defined 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 employees role.

Required Experience:

Senior IC