About the Team

Rippling's Tax Platform is one of only ~5 companies globally that owns the full tax calculation and filing stack. We process over $30 billion in annual payroll for 1 million+ employees—growing 50% year-over-year. Our systems handle millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries, ensuring tax correctness across 4,000+ jurisdictions while staying compliant with constantly changing tax regulations.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who takes ownership of complex problems, designs robust systems, and delivers high-quality solutions that directly impact millions of tax calculations.

Why This Role
Rare Prospect
You'd be joining one of only ~5 companies in the world that owns the full tax stack. ADP took 70+ years, Paychex 50+ years, Paycom 25+ years—Rippling built it in 10. Everyone else licenses from vendors. At Rippling, you own the engine.
Uniquely Hard Technical Challenges
- Real-time at scale: Sub-second tax calculations for payroll preview, batch processing of millions of records at month-end, with perfect consistency across retries




- Integration complexity: Filing to thousands of agencies via PDF, XML, fixed-width files, SFTP, web portals, APIs—and yes, some still require paper mail
- Testing without ground truth: No "tax oracle" exists; you'll build validation systems for millions of edge cases across 50 states × 12 months × multiple entity types
- Historical accuracy: Must calculate taxes using rules from any past date as regulations constantly change

The Big Bets You'll Contribute To
- Building an AI-Driven Global Tax Engine with explainable AI for full audit defensibility
- Massive System Scaling to support 100x current volume and enterprise-grade companies
- Expanding International Support to 20+ countries, each with unique tax systems
- Building Distributed Transactional Systems handling $100B+ in tax payments
- Automating Tax Filing to minimize manual intervention at scale

What You'll Build
- FQL (Filing Query Lan

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru