Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Workflows & Scale

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Emerging Products to design and build backend services powering complex workflows across Spend, IT, security, and enterprise applications.

You will contribute to AI-powered workflows, ensure reliability, security, and performance at scale, and collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to deliver seamless experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in production backend engineering.
• Expertise in distributed systems and data modeling.
• Strong CS fundamentals and scale-aware design.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Make strategic technical decisions around architecture, infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability.
• 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

Go

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Performance optimization

Job description

Rippling in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Emerging Products to design and build backend services powering complex workflows across Spend, IT, security, and enterprise applications.

You will contribute to AI-powered workflows, ensure reliability, security, and performance at scale, and collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to deliver seamless experiences.