Senior Backend Engineer, Enterprise AI-Ready Workflows

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

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build services, APIs, and platform primitives powering its multi-product platform. You’ll work on permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device and app management, procurement, and security controls.

Join a team expanding AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and core platform experiences. We value reliability, security, and enterprise-grade scalability in every solution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production experience with Python/Django.
• Frontend experience with React or TypeScript.
• Experience operating at large technical and organizational scale.
• Strong product intuition and focus on UX.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve backend capabilities and user-facing features across the stack.
• Design and implement backend services and APIs powering core product features.
• Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems for high-volume workflows (Spend, IT, identity, access, approvals, compliance).
• Translate business needs into robust technical solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Evolve systems involving workflows, permissions, policy enforcement, financial operations, procurement, security controls.
• Raise technical standards via design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Help create unified product experiences that replace fragmented solutions for managing employees, spend, devices, apps, access, and operations.

Skills

Python

Django

React

TypeScript

Systems scale

Communication

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build services, APIs, and platform primitives powering its multi-product platform. You’ll work on permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device and app management, procurement, and security controls.

Join a team expanding AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and core platform experiences. We value reliability, security, and enterprise-grade scalability in every solution.