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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** CO-RIPPLING LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $189,000.0 - $315,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Fault Tolerance, Software Engineering, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a74399d3-2699-4593-a780-1ba7fba6a0dd

## About the Role

* Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record in full-stack development and building products end-to-end.
 * Proven ability to design large-scale, fault-tolerant systems from scratch while balancing trade-offs between business objectives and technical decisions.
 * Able to solve large, ambiguous problems with high agency, all while taking full ownership of the outcome from a business and technical perspective.
 * Proficiency with modern coding languages and AI tools with the ability to learn new skills and technologies quickly as needed.
 * Capable of multiplying the impact of others by resolving blockers, improving team processes and systems, and growing other engineers via mentorship and hands-on coaching

## Description

We are the team building the core infrastructure and tools to manage a company's financial operations, focusing on Procurement, Bill Pay, and Banking products. Our mission is to save companies time and money by enforcing policies, intelligently routing approvals, moving real funds, and syncing to accounting books in real time. The team manages systems that move billions of dollars via direct integrations with financial systems all while taking advantage of the Rippling platform built on top of the employee database and object graph., * Serve as the technical leader for the Procurement, Bill Pay, and Banking product areas, ensuring the architectural integrity and stability required for sustainable growth.

 * Drive the hands-on technical architecture and design for large-scale, fault-tolerant systems that handle money movement.
 * Be the liaison between product and engineering leadership, translating business objectives into technical roadmaps and executing high-impact projects.
 * Play a pivotal role in leading and mentoring highly talented engineers across the team, raising the bar for engineering quality and process in mission-critical financial systems.


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