Rippling
Staff Software Engineer - Fintech AI
$189K–$315K
San Francisco, CA +2 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 8+ years.
About the job
Architects and builds AI-native, globally scalable payroll onboarding infrastructure that guides businesses through regional tax and payroll setup while preserving deterministic accuracy and compliance.
What you'll do
- Design platform infrastructure and reusable workflows that help expansion teams launch payroll in new international markets.
- Build AI-driven conversational setup, agentic tools, and deterministic validation and reconciliation systems.
- Own core transactional platform architecture, improving scalability, availability, data integrity, and operational resilience.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with sustained technical leadership and tangible organizational impact.
- Deep expertise architecting platform and distributed systems, including observable and resilient architectures at scale.
- Strong hands-on coding proficiency while taking on strategic responsibilities.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and align engineering and product teams.
Nice to have
- Prior expertise developing agentic workflows or AI-native systems.
Pay
USD 189,000–315,000 per year (base salary; US San Francisco Bay Area); USD 189,000–315,000 per year (base salary; US Tier 1)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Build AI-native conversational payroll onboarding with LLMs and agentic workflows, integrating deterministic execution, validation, and evaluation to meet financial and compliance standards.
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