Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer (Finance)

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in Seattle, Washington, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial AI Product team. You will help build AI-powered backend and full-stack capabilities powering onboarding, payroll-related workflows, payments, and compliance with a focus on reliability and security.

You will design scalable data models, APIs, and pipelines, collaborating with product, design, and operations to turn messy real-world data into simple, scalable software while building guardrails around

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and production-scale experience.
• Backend systems, data models, APIs, or platform infrastructure for complex domains.
• Reliability, correctness, edge cases, and operational risk awareness.
• Interest in applied AI, LLMs, agents, evals, or AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered capabilities for financial workflows (onboarding, data ingestion, reconciliation, validation).
• Design systems that combine model-driven reasoning with deterministic execution.
• Develop ingestion/normalization for messy exports and provider formats.
• Create evals, testing, observability, and feedback loops for AI quality.

Skills

Backend design

APIs

AI interest

Reliability

Product sense

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Architecture

Job description

Rippling in Seattle, Washington, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial AI Product team. You will help build AI-powered backend and full-stack capabilities powering onboarding, payroll-related workflows, payments, and compliance with a focus on reliability and security.

You will design scalable data models, APIs, and pipelines, collaborating with product, design, and operations to turn messy real-world data into simple, scalable software while building guardrails around