Senior Backend Engineer, Platform & Data Systems

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is hiring a backend engineer to help build the Platform team responsible for analytics, workflows, data platform, and more, enabling 10+ product teams. You will work on distributed processing engines, write testable backend code in Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka, and leverage big data tech like Aurora, Trino, Pinot, and Flink as part of our data-rich platform.

The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity, with 5+ years in backend roles and the

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in backend engineering roles.
• Experience writing testable and performant backend code.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience mentoring less-experienced developers
• Ability to thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions

Responsibilities

• Work on distributed processing engines and distributed databases
• Develop high-quality software with attention to detail using tech stacks like Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka
• Leverage big data technologies like Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink and more.
• Build custom programming languages within the Rippling Platform
• Create data platforms, data lakes, and data ingestion systems that work at scale
• Design, develop, code, and test software systems, improvements, products, and user-facing experiences
• Work alongside software architects and senior developers doing state-of-the-art development work
• Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
• Find and build unique solutions to implement projects from the idea phase to production

Skills

Backend engineering

Testable code

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Autonomy

Job description

Rippling, based in San Francisco, is hiring a backend engineer to help build the Platform team responsible for analytics, workflows, data platform, and more, enabling 10+ product teams. You will work on distributed processing engines, write testable backend code in Python, MongoDB, CDC, and Kafka, and leverage big data tech like Aurora, Trino, Pinot, and Flink as part of our data-rich platform.

The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity, with 5+ years in backend roles and the