Staff Software Engineer - Tax Calculation

About Rippling Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform. By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.35B from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500) Team overview The Tax Calculation is one of the core components of our Rippling payroll offering, responsible for the translation of 100+ complex tax acts & laws across 10+ countries including USA and Canada in an accurate manner. In Rippling, our tax calculation team builds state of the art calculation engine by providing clear breakdown & explainability for payroll admins and easy to write no code framework of tax laws across different timelines for our compliance and tax ops team. About the Role We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Tax Calculation team. As a senior most engineer and architect of the team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling a first-of-its-kind Tax Calculation and Tax Policy product. You will work on complex payroll domains across 10+ countries, building a clean DSL for internal stakeholders, large-scale distributed systems, and cutting-edge performance analytics. Your work will have a direct impact on building a world class payroll product which accelerates success of expanding to more countries in a 10x shorter time span. Key Responsibilities Lead the Architecture and Development: Design and implement scalable, high-performance Tax Calculation Engine to process large-scale payroll data and performance metrics across 10+ countries internationally with varied range of domain and technical complexity. Own Data Pipelines: Architect and build efficient, real-time data pipelines that ensure accurate, timely detection of Tax Changes and process them as DSL based policies to be applied across several verticals like Payroll, Risk, Insurance and Compliance. Scale Distributed Systems: Develop and optimize distributed systems that handle high-throughput data processing and analytics. Drive Technical Excellence: Set best practices for code quality, security, and system reliability. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to define and execute on the product roadmap. Build and own feature set end to end and platformization of generic problems across countries. Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a high-performance team culture. Qualifications Experience: 9+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a role leading architecture, designing consumer facing products and building systems. Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in backend development, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines. Data Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks Scalability and Performance: Deep knowledge of building and scaling real-time, high-throughput systems. Consumer-Facing Product Development: Experience working on consumer-grade applications with a focus on intuitive user experiences.