Backend Engineer II, FinTech Platform

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is expanding its Financial Product Engineering team in San Francisco, delivering a unified backend platform for global payroll, spend management, and tax/compliance systems. This Backend Engineer II role focuses on building scalable services and APIs that power Rippling’s core financial features for businesses.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years in backend development with Python or Go, strong PostgreSQL experience, and a collaborative mindset to work across teams on scalable, reliable

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer, preferably with Python, Go, or a similar production language, and strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• Care about business impact, balancing technical craft with speed and the bottom line to deliver value quickly.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, demonstrating resilience and agility in the face of changing product needs.
• Excellent skills in communicating complex technical ideas with clarity to enable effective collaboration with peers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test reliable backend services and APIs that power core product features and business logic at scale.
• Work across key technical domains, including API design, data modeling, event modeling, and optimizing service performance.
• Own the development lifecycle for defined features, from implementation and testing to deployment, monitoring, and support in a production environment.
• Effectively integrate into cross-functional teams, contribute to technical discovery, and rapidly learn from code and system feedback.

Skills

Python

Go

PostgreSQL

APIs

Job description

Rippling is expanding its Financial Product Engineering team in San Francisco, delivering a unified backend platform for global payroll, spend management, and tax/compliance systems. This Backend Engineer II role focuses on building scalable services and APIs that power Rippling’s core financial features for businesses.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years in backend development with Python or Go, strong PostgreSQL experience, and a collaborative mindset to work across teams on scalable, reliable