Senior Backend Engineer, FinTech Payments & Global Payroll

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, builds a global financial platform as part of the Financial Product Engineering team. You will own backend services and APIs powering payroll, spending, and money movement, working with product, frontend, and platform teams to deliver robust, high-performance solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in Python or Go, deep distributed-systems expertise, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a production backend environment with Python or Go.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Strong CS fundamentals and experience delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of core backend services and APIs.
• Ensure systems scale, are reliable, and secure, with solid data integrity.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate goals into solutions.
• Elevate technical standards, lead reviews, and mentor engineers on backend practices.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed Systems

Data Modeling

CS Fundamentals

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, builds a global financial platform as part of the Financial Product Engineering team. You will own backend services and APIs powering payroll, spending, and money movement, working with product, frontend, and platform teams to deliver robust, high-performance solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in Python or Go, deep distributed-systems expertise, and strong communication.