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.

What You Will Do
• System Design: Architect scalable, reliable systems that handle billions of dollars in tax calculations with zero tolerance for error
• Ownership & Impact: Own features end-to-end—from design through production—with direct visibility into business outcomes
• Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for code quality, testing practices, and technical documentation within your team
• Reliability & Correctness:



Build systems where accuracy is non-negotiable; a single bug can mean compliance failures across thousands of companies
• Global Scale: Solve challenges unique to processing millions of payroll transactions across multiple countries with 4,000+ jurisdictions and evolving regulations
• Collaboration: Partner with compliance, product, and platform teams to translate complex tax requirements into elegant technical solutions

What You Will Have
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Robust system design skills with experience building distributed, high-reliability systems
• Proficiency in Python; experience with Django or similar frameworks that follow the MVC pattern (layered architecture).
• Track record of owning and delivering impactful projects autonomously
• Rigorous approach to correctness—you write tests, handle edge cases, and think about failure modes
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex problem sp

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rippling
📍 Bengaluru