Senior Full-Stack AI Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Rippling is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack, to help build the next generation of Rippling AI. You will own meaningful technical initiatives end-to-end—from backend infrastructure to user-facing surfaces that make AI capabilities accessible, trustworthy, and intuitive.

You’ll work with product, infra, and platform teams to deliver cohesive experiences across the stack in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning and delivering complex full-stack projects.
• Strong backend and frontend engineering for scalable systems.
• Experience with AI-powered interfaces is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical design and implementation for high-impact AI platform initiatives — from backend systems through to the frontend surfaces that expose them to users and admins.
• Build scalable agent infrastructure that automates repetitive, high-frequency workflows across Rippling's product surface.
• Design and implement user-facing AI experiences that are observable, controllable, and intuitive — translating complex backend capabilities into clean, trustworthy interfaces.
• Develop harness and platform capabilities that encode business logic and institutional knowledge into reliable, automated workflows.
• Build frontend components and interaction patterns for AI-powered surfaces including chat interfaces, agent dashboards, configuration UIs, and real-time feedback loops.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across product, infra, and platform organizations to deliver cohesive experiences across the stack.
• Design systems that are observable, self-correcting, and capable of improving over time with minimal human intervention.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to ensure AI-powered surfaces are trustworthy, controllable, and delightful for end users and admins.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to best practices for full stack AI platform development, and raise the technical bar on your team.
• Track the frontier — translate model capability improvements into architectural and UX decisions, and move quickly when new approaches unlock better outcomes

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Platform and distributed systems

React/TypeScript

Hands-on coding

Cross-team collaboration

Product instincts

Clear communication

AI agents experience

Job description

Rippling is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack, to help build the next generation of Rippling AI. You will own meaningful technical initiatives end-to-end—from backend infrastructure to user-facing surfaces that make AI capabilities accessible, trustworthy, and intuitive.

You’ll work with product, infra, and platform teams to deliver cohesive experiences across the stack in a fast-growing environment.