Senior Backend Engineer, Core Platform & Onboarding

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling in New York is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale core experience systems. You will own onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and foundational surfaces used by multiple product teams.

You will work with product and design to define contracts, ensure performance, reliability, and observability in production, and build reusable components that multiply the output of teams across Rippling. A strong backend focus and platform mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend systems design and fault tolerance.
• Ability to own features end-to-end with product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems powering Core Experience.
• Take end-to-end ownership from design to production.
• Collaborate with product and design to shape features.
• Build scalable, reusable platform components.

Skills

Backend systems

Systems thinking

Full-stack ownership

Platform engineering

Python/Go/Java

SQL/NoSQL

Tools

Python

Go

Java

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Rippling in New York is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale core experience systems. You will own onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and foundational surfaces used by multiple product teams.

You will work with product and design to define contracts, ensure performance, reliability, and observability in production, and build reusable components that multiply the output of teams across Rippling. A strong backend focus and platform mindset are essential.