Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer anchoring Rippling's new Money Movement & Treasury ledger architecture in Seattle. Own design and implementation of deterministic, config-driven ledger systems, reconciliation frameworks, and technical leadership mentoring senior engineers while collaborating with Payments, Tax, and Accounting teams.
About the job
What you will do
- Architect the Foundation: Redesign our General Ledger and reconciliation systems to eliminate silent failures and to be deterministic.
- Unify the Abstraction: Establish universal primitives across various historically disjointed payment systems to create a single, queryable lifecycle for every dollar moving through our platform.
- Build the Engine: Develop a reconciliation replay and testing framework, working closely with the payments data team to replace legacy Snowflake-side recon logic.
- Technical Leadership: Anchor the Seattle site, mentoring a pod of high-performing Senior engineers to build an execution layer decoupled from product feature velocity.
- Cross Functional Execution: Work closely with the Payments Data, Tax, and Accounting teams to understand ledger, tax liability, accounting and regulatory reporting requirements, and replace legacy Snowflake-side reconciliation logic.
What you will need
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in backend development and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch. Understand trade-offs between consistency and availability and know when "eventual consistency" is not enough.
- High agency: Thrive in ambiguity, identify business problems, scope technical solutions, and execute.
- Intellectual curiosity to master the complex domain of treasury and money movement quickly.
- Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) plus experience with complex data modeling (SQL/NoSQL) and data processing frameworks (Spark/Flink).
Skills
Python, Go, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Spark, Flink, Distributed Systems, General Ledger, Reconciliation Systems
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