Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Finance Platform

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

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for our Financial AI Product team in Seattle. You will build AI-powered capabilities for complex financial workflows, design hybrid model-driven and deterministic systems, and ensure end‑to‑end reliability and auditability.

Collaborate with product, design, operations, and platform teams to deliver scalable, production‑grade software that elevates payroll, payments, reconciliation, and compliance processes.

Qualifications

• Production‑level backend systems experience.
• Strong bias for reliability, correctness, and operational risk control.
• Interest in applied AI, LLMs, agents, evals, and AI‑assisted workflows.
• Ability to reason about when to use AI vs deterministic systems.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered capabilities for complex financial workflows like onboarding, data ingestion, reconciliation, validation, and exception handling.
• Design systems that combine model-driven reasoning with deterministic execution.
• Create workflows that trace financial values to source evidence and surface gaps.
• Develop ingestion/normalization for messy exports and historical data formats.
• Build evals, testing harnesses, observability, and feedback loops to measure AI quality.
• Partner with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to identify high‑impact AI opportunities.
• Prototype quickly in ambiguous areas and scale successful solutions into reusable primitives.
• Set engineering bars for correctness, auditability, security, reliability, and production safety.

Skills

Backend design

Production systems

Reliability

AI in prod

Ownership

Ambiguity navigation

Product sense

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for our Financial AI Product team in Seattle. You will build AI-powered capabilities for complex financial workflows, design hybrid model-driven and deterministic systems, and ensure end‑to‑end reliability and auditability.

Collaborate with product, design, operations, and platform teams to deliver scalable, production‑grade software that elevates payroll, payments, reconciliation, and compliance processes.