# Staff Software Engineer - Financial Integrity

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Backend Platforms, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Transaction Processing, System Architecture, Scalability, Observability, Security, Regulatory Compliance, Payments, Ledgers, Risk Systems, Code Reviews, Production Operations, Failure Recovery
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable, reliable, and compliant financial integrity systems. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and the ability to drive complex initiatives and mentor engineers through influence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve systems powering Financial Integrity, ensuring financial transactions are accurate, reliable, secure, compliant, and auditable.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Define the team’s long-term technical vision and roadmap with product, engineering, operations, risk, and compliance leaders.
- Design and build scalable distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes, automated controls, and failure recovery.
- Improve correctness, observability, security, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives from technical exploration through delivery, managing risks and ambiguity.
- Develop automation that improves operational efficiency and reduces manual intervention.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through architecture reviews, design guidance, and engineering practices.
- Foster ownership, high standards, and measurable customer and business impact.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for architecture and complex cross-team initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience building backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-throughput data or transaction-processing pipelines.
- Experience designing systems where correctness, reliability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance are critical.
- Proven ability to design scalable systems, make architectural trade-offs, and establish long-term technical direction.
- Ability to lead through influence, raise engineering standards, guide design and code reviews, and mentor engineers without direct management responsibility.
- Track record of translating technical vision into milestones, managing risks and dependencies, and delivering complex initiatives.
- Ability to collaborate with product, engineering, finance, operations, risk, and compliance stakeholders across regions and time zones.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with payments, ledgers, risk, or compliance systems.

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