Rippling
Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Calculation
$189K–$315K
New York, NY · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- Staff-level experience; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Lead the architecture and hands-on development of accurate, auditable payroll calculation systems that scale across enterprise customers and international jurisdictions.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy, write critical production code, and lead high-impact, cross-team initiatives.
- Build configurable, versioned, testable, explainable, scalable, and debuggable payroll calculation frameworks; improve reliability and performance.
- Use AI to improve payroll logic development, validation, explanation, and operation; mentor engineers and partner across teams.
What they ask for
- Staff-level experience designing and scaling complex production systems where correctness and auditability are critical.
- Strong fundamentals in architecture, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, caching, and reliability.
- Track record setting technical direction and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Strong product judgment, communication skills, and ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Payroll experience is helpful but not required.
- Experience in other high-integrity domains where correctness, auditability, and customer trust are essential.
Pay
USD 189,000–315,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Leverage AI to make payroll logic easier to build, validate, explain, and operate without compromising accuracy, auditability, or control.
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