Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable AI-Driven Platform

Rippling

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 280,000

Full time

6 hours ago

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Job summary

Rippling Seattle seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services and APIs powering critical product capabilities across Spend, IT, identity, and approvals. You will pursue reliable, secure, scalable systems for high‑volume workflows and enterprise security controls.

You will collaborate with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross‑functional teams to translate ambiguous needs into robust technical solutions, and help advance AI‑powered workflows with safety,

Qualifications

5+ years of production backend experience with Python/Go.
Strong distributed systems and relational data modeling skills.
Excellent cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

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.
Make strategic technical decisions around architecture, infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability.
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.