Senior Backend Engineer — Equity & Scalable Platform

Rippling (Netherlands); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build services and APIs powering its multi-product platform. You will tackle permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device management, and secure data handling at scale.

You will contribute to AI-powered workflows, ensuring safety, reliability, and enterprise-grade explainability while collaborating with product, platform, and design teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in production backend engineering.
• Experience with Python or Go.
• Distributed systems design experience.
• Strong data modeling skills.
• Relational database performance optimization.
• Solid CS fundamentals.
• Excellent cross-functional communication.

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

Data modeling

Relational databases

CS fundamentals

Communication skills

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build services and APIs powering its multi-product platform. You will tackle permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device management, and secure data handling at scale.

You will contribute to AI-powered workflows, ensuring safety, reliability, and enterprise-grade explainability while collaborating with product, platform, and design teams.