Rippling · 2 days ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Fintech Data Platform
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $315K/yr
10+ years expRippling is a company that provides a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance, enabling businesses to manage their workforce systems efficiently. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and scaling the data architecture for the Finance Data Platform, ensuring data consistency and integrity across various financial products, and directly impacting financial processes for millions of users.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive the data architecture strategy for Finance Products, establishing the long-term blueprint for data modeling, data flow, and system integration across Payroll, Tax, Payments, Billing, and related domains
Design robust and extensible data models and schemas that serve as the single source of truth for financial transactions, compliance records, and customer accounts
Build and evolve the data infrastructure — including data ingestion, transformation, and storage layers — to support both operational workloads (e.g., payroll calculations, tax filings) and analytical use cases (e.g., reporting, forecasting, anomaly detection)
Ensure data accuracy, compliance, and auditability, working closely with product, legal, and compliance teams to meet evolving regulatory and accounting standards globally
Partner with engineering and product teams to embed scalable data abstractions and APIs into the core Finance Products stack, enabling seamless cross-product interoperability
Lead cross-org data initiatives, including data lineage, observability, quality frameworks, and master data governance, ensuring trust and reliability in all financial data
Mentor and influence senior engineers and data leaders, raising the technical bar for data modeling, schema evolution, and distributed data systems across the organization
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software or data engineering, with a strong emphasis on data architecture, modeling, and distributed data systems
Proven ability to design high-integrity financial data systems — including ledgering, reconciliation, and audit frameworks — that operate at global scale
Deep experience with relational and analytical data modeling, including event-driven and streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, Debezium, CDC pipelines)
Strong understanding of financial data domains such as payroll, tax, payments, or accounting is highly desirable
Expertise in SQL and modern data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) as well as data orchestration and transformation tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt)
Ability to balance technical purity with product velocity, iteratively delivering architecture that supports immediate product needs while setting up long-term scale
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing architecture across multiple teams and business functions
Benefits
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Company
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance operations into a single system.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
CoatueGreenoaksFounders Fund
2025-05-09Series G· $450M
2024-04-22Series F· $200M
2024-04-22Secondary Market· $590M
Leadership Team
Albert Strasheim
Chief Technology Officer
Adil Syed
CFO
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