Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Financial Platforms

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial AI Product Team in San Francisco to shape how AI powers financial products and infrastructure. The role spans onboarding, reconciliation, and orchestration of advanced workflows on a scalable backend, with guardrails and AI-enabled features.

You will work with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define how AI becomes a core part of financial product and infrastructure across onboarding, reconciliation, and orchestration of complex workflows.
• Design backend systems, guardrails, and scalable AI-enabled features for our growing platform.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into robust solutions.

Job description

Rippling is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Financial AI Product Team in San Francisco. You will help define how AI becomes a core part of financial product and infrastructure, working across onboarding, reconciliation, and orchestration of complex workflows.

You’ll design backend systems, guardrails, and scalable AI-enabled features for our growing platform. You will collaborate with product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to turn ambiguous problems into robust,