Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Ready Platform (Equity)

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

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services and APIs powering our multi-product platform in a high-scale environment. You will own critical systems spanning permissions, payments, device and app management, and security controls.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions and help expand AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, and Spend while

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

Distributed systems

Relational databases

CS/algorithms

Communication

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services and APIs powering our multi-product platform in a high-scale environment. You will own critical systems spanning permissions, payments, device and app management, and security controls.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions and help expand AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, and Spend while