Senior Software Engineer - Payroll Engineering

About Rippling

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.

By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.84B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the IN/SG Payroll Engineering Team at Rippling:

The IN/SG payroll system is on a high growth path, we manage highly complex compliance requirements from the regulatory authorities while we build easy to use and highly scalable payroll solutions for our customers. Our team ensures compliance with local labor laws while integrating with key HR functions like PTO, Benefits, and HRIS.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join to lead the Rippling’s IN/SG (India/Singapore) Payroll Engineering Team by bringing in vision in collaboration with product and fellow engineers.. This team is responsible for managing the complete IN/SG payroll process, including onboarding, tax calculation, payroll calculations, integration with third party systems for filings, POI handling, generating challans etc. The team collaborates with various cross-organizational functions like HRIS, PTO, Benefits, and Pension, as well as global payroll platform teams. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work on a highly complex and impactful system and grow in a fast-paced, product-focused environment.

What You Will Do

• Own and deliver multi-team, quarterly goals, taking responsibility for project success, and aligning team goals with organizational priorities.
• Convert complex requests into scalable, clean designs and code; serving as a multi-system architecture expert; proficiently debugging, managing on-call/incidents (including acting as Incident Commander and conducting postmortems); continuously focusing on maintainability and quality; and implementing security best practices.
• Contribute to the development of robust and scalable systems supporting IN/SG payroll.
• Write clean, maintainable code, contribute to improving our tech stack and processes, and participate in code reviews and design discussions to continuously learn and improve.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, other teams, and third party system to build and ship product features.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships, acting as a technical liaison, and proactively clarifying requirements.
• Mentor teammates, actively seeking and offering feedback, contributing to recruiting, driving knowledge sharing, and seeking mentorship.

Who You Are

• You’re passionate about solving real-world problems and building systems that impact millions of users.
• You’re curious, eager to learn, and thrive in a collaborative environment.
• You care about code quality, maintainability, and long-term scalability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Experience building large-scale platforms for web applications.
• Experience in leading the projects that span across multiple teams and require cross functional collaboration.
• Experience mentoring and leading a small team of engineers.
• Expertise in Python and Django is a must-have.
• Familiarity with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and system design basics.
• Comfortable debugging and troubleshooting independently.
• Bonus: Exposure to frontend development (JavaScript) is a plus.