Senior Backend Engineer – Scale, Equity & Benefits

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

Rippling is building a unified workforce platform that handles HR, IT, and finance processes at scale. The HR Product Engineering team focuses on secure, global systems powering the employee lifecycle from hire to retire.

You will join a group delivering core backend services, APIs, and data models critical to payroll, benefits, and time systems. This role emphasizes reliability, performance, and cross-functional collaboration across product and platform teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
• Experience with large-scale systems in production environments.
• Strong CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of core backend services and APIs powering product capabilities.
• Ensure high-volume scale, reliability, and security; make infrastructure decisions.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust solutions.
• Elevate technical standards, lead code/design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Relational databases

Algorithms

Communication

Job description

Rippling is building a unified workforce platform that handles HR, IT, and finance processes at scale. The HR Product Engineering team focuses on secure, global systems powering the employee lifecycle from hire to retire.

You will join a group delivering core backend services, APIs, and data models critical to payroll, benefits, and time systems. This role emphasizes reliability, performance, and cross-functional collaboration across product and platform teams.