Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Workflows & Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services powering its multi-product platform. You will develop APIs and systems affecting HR, IT, and finance workflows with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and scale.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to deliver robust solutions for permissions, approvals, and financial operations, while helping expand AI-powered workflows across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
• You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale.
• Strong understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

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 backend

Distributed systems

Data modeling & performance

CS fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services powering its multi-product platform. You will develop APIs and systems affecting HR, IT, and finance workflows with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and scale.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to deliver robust solutions for permissions, approvals, and financial operations, while helping expand AI-powered workflows across the platform.