Senior Backend Engineer – FinTech Spend Platform

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

In-office culture

Job summary

Rippling is hiring for a backend-focused role within the Spend Product Team. You will own core backend services and APIs that power critical financial and spend workflows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across a high-velocity platform.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, frontend, and platform teams, driving robust, high-performance technical solutions and mentoring engineers to raise backend standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Frontend development experience with React or TypeScript.
• Exposure to systems operating at significant scale.
• Strong product intuition and focus on design and user experience.
• Experience shipping complex projects and solid CS fundamentals.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs powering product capabilities.
• Ensure systems are built for high-volume scale, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust solutions.
• Mentor engineers on backend best practices and elevate technical standards.

Skills

Python/Django

React/TypeScript

System scale experience

Product intuition

Shipping complex projects

CS/Algorithms

Communication

Tools

Django

Job description

Rippling is hiring for a backend-focused role within the Spend Product Team. You will own core backend services and APIs that power critical financial and spend workflows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across a high-velocity platform.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, frontend, and platform teams, driving robust, high-performance technical solutions and mentoring engineers to raise backend standards.