Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Workflows

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable services and APIs powering its multi-product platform. You’ll work across Spend, IT, identity, and security domains, shipping robust, secure backend solutions with a focus on reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions, while mentoring others and upholding engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Django, or related technologies.
• Familiarity in frontend development with React or typescript.
• Exposure and hands on experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale
• Strong product intuition: you care about design and user experience and are quick to identify how these could be improved.
• Experience shipping complex projects
• Deep understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals
• Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user-facing features, working across the stack to make them shine
• 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.
• 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

Django

React

TypeScript

CS fundamentals

Communication

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable services and APIs powering its multi-product platform. You’ll work across Spend, IT, identity, and security domains, shipping robust, secure backend solutions with a focus on reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, and design teams to translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions, while mentoring others and upholding engineering best practices.