Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven FinTech Systems

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for its Financial AI Product team. You will design and build backend systems powering AI-enabled financial workflows, with a focus on correctness and auditability.

You will prototype quickly, scale reusable primitives, and collaborate with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to implement robust solutions. Equity and benefits accompany the role.

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade backend services.
• Strong emphasis on reliability, correctness, and audits.
• Familiarity with AI workflows and evaluation.
• Ability to ship end-to-end in ambiguous domains.
• Comfort working with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered backend capabilities for financial workflows.
• Design hybrid model-driven and deterministic systems.
• Create ingestion and normalization for messy data.
• Develop tests, observability, and guardrails.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and compliance.
• Scale to reusable platform primitives.
• Maintain production safety and security.

Skills

Backend design

Production systems

AI / LLM interest

Reliability & safety

Product collaboration

Job description

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for its Financial AI Product team. You will design and build backend systems powering AI-enabled financial workflows, with a focus on correctness and auditability.

You will prototype quickly, scale reusable primitives, and collaborate with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to implement robust solutions. Equity and benefits accompany the role.