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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial Product

- **Company:** CO-RIPPLING LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Business Logic, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-software-engineer-backend-financial-product-san-francisco-ca--c22ee63b-18c7-4620-8d5f-918143a08a89

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Expense Management, Product Engineering, Global Financial Markets, Financial Systems, Cross-Functional, Payroll Administration, Expense Tracking, Tax Regulations, Banking Services, * 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.

 * Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
 * You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
 * Strong understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery.
 * Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

## Description

Our team builds and maintains the core financial products that enable businesses to operate seamlessly, covering areas such as:

 * Global Payroll: Developing the systems for calculating, filing, and processing payroll across multiple countries, including tax logic, compliance, and direct money movement infrastructure.
 * Banking & Fintech Infrastructure: We're building the simplest, invisible, intelligent financial backbone for global money movement. This platform delivers secure, fault-tolerant, scalable primitives for money movement, billing, reconciliation, compliance, and financial intelligence, enabling rapid launch of financial products with minimal effort, and zero disbursement failures or manual intervention.
 * Tax & Compliance Platforms: Designing robust, scalable systems to handle complex, rapidly changing tax and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. We operate in a zero tolerance domain for accuracy, timelines and compliance. Our platform manages calculation, setup, filings and payments of taxes for US and ever expanding international markets., * Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities and complex business logic.
 * Ensure all systems are built for high-volume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic decisions about infrastructure and data integrity.
 * Work seamlessly with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high-performance technical solutions.
 * Elevate the team's technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.