Join Rippling's pioneering Tax Platform team as a Staff Software Engineer, a critical role shaping the future of global tax compliance. Our platform is a leader in the industry, processing over $30 billion in annual payroll for more than a million employees, with impressive 50% year-over-year growth. You will be instrumental in guiding technical strategy and architectural decisions for systems that manage millions of payroll transactions across numerous countries and thousands of jurisdictions.

This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by driving engineering excellence and ensuring the reliability and correctness of our mission-critical tax infrastructure. If you are passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems and influencing company-wide technical direction, this is the role for you.

Lead the architectural vision for large-scale, mission-critical systems handling substantial tax calculations, ensuring scalability for rapid growth. Drive key initiatives with broad organizational visibility, influencing product roadmaps and overall company strategy. Champion and define best-in-class engineering standards and scalable patterns across multiple teams. Design and implement highly reliable systems focused on auditability, correctness, and graceful degradation under heavy load. Address complex architectural challenges associated with processing millions of global payroll transactions across diverse jurisdictions and evolving regulations. Serve as a primary technical advisor in cross-functional decision-making, translating complex business requirements into actionable technical strategies.

Possess over 8 years of comprehensive software engineering experience, with a proven history of technical leadership. Demonstrate a strong aptitude for architecting robust, large-scale distributed systems that meet stringent reliability requirements. Exhibit deep proficiency in at least one Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs) language and extensive experience designing systems for broad adoption by other engineers. Showcase a track record of effectively driving technical strategy and influencing decisions across multiple engineering teams. Embrace a strong ownership mentality, taking full responsibility for problem resolution from identification through to successful completion. Adhere to rigorous engineering practices, emphasizing correctness, thorough testing, and operational excellence. Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of effectively representing engineering viewpoints to leadership and stakeholders.