The Variable Compensation (VC) team at Rippling is on a mission to revolutionize how organizations design, manage, and distribute performance-based pay. As an agile team we operate at the dynamic intersection of Finance,HR and Artificial Intelligence. We are spearheading an AI-first product, navigating highly ambiguous, evolving requirements to build a seamless, intuitive, and highly scalable compensation platform from the ground up.
The team is structured into four key focus areas:
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Compensation Engine – Build the foundational system that powers dynamic pay rules and performance metrics, designed with the flexibility to support a wide range of custom compensation structures.
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Payment Orchestration – Design world class payment orchestrators and ledgers that support a wide range of use cases .
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AI-First Design & Explainability – Leverage artificial intelligence to assist customers with plan design, setup, and administration, while building a robust “Explainability Layer” that gives employees a clear, 360-degree view of how their payouts are calculated.
Few Technical Challenges We Solve
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Scale: Build systems that can scale and process millions of payouts across thousands of unique and complex compensation plans.
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Infinite Flexibility: Build a rules engine capable of supporting the vast, complex, and highly customized ways different companies pay their people
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Resilience and Accuracy: Build financial systems that are 100% correct.
Design systems that can adapt to increasing complexity without compromising performance or accuracy.
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Pioneering AI Integration: Design and build natively AI-driven architecture from scratch. We are translating highly ambiguous, unstructured compensation philosophies into deterministic, executable code using intelligent automation.
This team is ideal for engineers who want to go beyond just building features - those who want to deeply understand the financial domain and develop robust, scalable systems that drive real-world impact. You’ll get to work at the crossroads of Finance, Risk, Compliance, KYC, and Accounting, gaining deep domain expertise while solving high-impact technical problems. If you’re excited about becoming a “Real Finance Engineer”, blending product thinking with core infrastructure, this is the team for you.
This role at Variable Compensation Team is a great opportunity to be a key technical leader at Rippling with high visibility and growth opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of Rippling’s finance platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to architect scalable systems, enhance existing features, and drive innovation in our product offerings, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable financial services to our customers.
Your role will involve an outstanding blend of business and technical savviness, the ability to look into and build a big-picture vision, and make that vision a reality. This is a high ownership, impact, and visibility role building a product that will directly impact Rippling’s growth.