Staff Software Engineer Travel

About the role
Youll be part of the Travel integrations team helping to define the future of corporate travel through the Rippling Platforms integrated solutions. As part of Ripplings Spend Suitewhich also includes corporate cards expense management procurement and bill paythe Travel team is integral to our all-in-one solution for managing corporate spending.

Our customers value the seamless integration of corporate cards expense management and accounting automation with travel management as the next frontier. Our mission is to build the best travel management platform for employees finance teams and travel managers alike.

What you will do:

• Craft exceptional platform solutions that will benefit multiple teams to create a seamless user experience.
• Be hands-on in technical architecture and be the liaison between between product leadership engineering leadership and technical workstreams
• Tackle complex engineering challenges leveraging your expertise to devise ingenious solutions that push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Assume clear ownership of your projects empowering you to make impactful decisions and drive their successful implementation.
• Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across Travel Org.
• Immerse yourself in one of Ripplings newest and most influential products becoming a true authority and contributing to its ongoing development.

What you will need:

• Experience: 8 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
• Architecture: Proven ability to design large-scale fault-tolerant systems from scratch. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability and know when eventual consistency is not enough.
• High Agency: You thrive in ambiguity. You dont wait for a ticket to be assigned; you identify the business problem scope the technical solution and execute.
• 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 dont have a background in it.
• Tech Stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python Go Java etc.) plus experience with complex data modeling (SQL/NoSQL)
• Communication: Ability to convey technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences effectively.