Senior Backend Engineer, Core Experience Platform

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own scalable systems powering Core Experience, including onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives that every product relies on.

You will partner with product and design to shape features end-to-end, design robust APIs, emphasize performance and observability, and create infrastructure that other teams can rely on to move fast at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering with backend focus.
• Design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start.
• Strong collaboration with product and design to shape features end-to-end.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data modeling and API design.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that power Core Experience's highest‑leverage surfaces: onboarding flows, self‑serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives other product teams rely on
• Take technical ownership end‑to‑end, from schema design and API contracts to performance, reliability, and observability in production
• Work directly with product and design to shape how features get built, not just implement what's handed to you
• Build for scale and reuse: the systems you design will be consumed by other engineering teams across Rippling, so correctness, documentation, and thoughtful abstraction matter

Skills

Backend systems

Scale & fault tolerance

SQL/NoSQL data modeling

Python/Go/Java

API design & contracts

Job description

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own scalable systems powering Core Experience, including onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives that every product relies on.

You will partner with product and design to shape features end-to-end, design robust APIs, emphasize performance and observability, and create infrastructure that other teams can rely on to move fast at scale.