Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Enterprise Platform

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

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Job summary

Rippling in Seattle, WA is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for Emerging Products to design and build backend services, APIs, and platform primitives powering Spend, IT, and identity workflows across the multi-product platform.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate complex needs into scalable, secure solutions, while advancing AI-powered workflows and enterprise readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Familiarity in frontend development with React or typescript.
• Exposure and hands on experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale
• Strong product intuition: you care about design and user experience and are quick to identify how these could be improved.
• Experience shipping complex projects
• Deep understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals
• Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user-facing features, working across the stack to make them shine
• Own the design and implementation of backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities.
• Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems for high-volume workflows across Spend, IT, identity, access, approvals, and compliance.
• Translate ambiguous business and customer needs into robust technical solutions in partnership with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross-functional teams.
• Build and evolve systems involving workflows, permissions, policy enforcement, financial operations, device and app management, procurement, and security controls.
• Raise the technical bar through system design, code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and backend engineering best practices.
• Help create unified product experiences that replace fragmented point solutions for managing employees, spend, devices, apps, access, and business operations.

Skills

Python

Django

React

TypeScript

Job description

Rippling in Seattle, WA is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for Emerging Products to design and build backend services, APIs, and platform primitives powering Spend, IT, and identity workflows across the multi-product platform.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate complex needs into scalable, secure solutions, while advancing AI-powered workflows and enterprise readiness.