Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Enterprise Workflows

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

Job summary

Rippling empowers businesses to manage HR, IT, and Finance in one platform. We seek a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and platform primitives powering workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and security.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and enterprise readiness while expanding AI‑powered capabilities.

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

Scalable systems

Product sense

Complex projects

CS fundamentals

Communication

Job description

Rippling empowers businesses to manage HR, IT, and Finance in one platform. We seek a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and platform primitives powering workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and security.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and enterprise readiness while expanding AI‑powered capabilities.