Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - Emerging Products

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Rippling seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build services, APIs, and platform primitives powering complex workflows across its multi-product platform. You’ll handle permissions, policy enforcement, payments, device management, procurement, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive data.

You’ll contribute to AI-powered workflows, ensuring reliability, explainability, and enterprise-grade security while enabling scalable automation for HR, IT, Finance, and Spend teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a production environment using Python/Django or related tech.
• Experience shipping complex backend projects at scale.
• Strong CS fundamentals and algorithmic knowledge.
• Good communication with diverse stakeholders.
• Exposure to frontend work (React/TypeScript) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve product backend capabilities and user-facing features.
• Own design and implementation of backend services and APIs.
• Build reliable, secure, scalable systems for high-volume workflows.
• Translate business needs into robust technical solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Evolve systems covering workflows, permissions, and financial operations.
• Promote engineering best practices through design reviews and mentorship.
• Create unified product experiences across employees, spend, devices, and apps.

Skills

Python

Django

React/TypeScript

System scale

CS fundamentals

Job description

About the role:

Rippling's Emerging Products teams which span Core Experience, Spend, and IT Products build deeply integrated systems across financial operations, IT administration, employee lifecycle automation, and enterprise security. These are high-trust product areas where reliability, correctness, security, and scale are critical.

As a Senior Backend Engineer you'll design and build the services, APIs, and platform primitives that power complex workflows across Rippling's multi-product platform. You'll work on systems involving permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device and app management, procurement, asset tracking, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive workforce and financial data.

This role also supports Rippling's expansion of AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and core platform experiences. You'll help make AI capabilities safe, reliable, explainable, auditable, and enterprise-ready, while ensuring customers have the trust, transparency, and control needed to adopt automation at scale.

What you will do:

• 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.

What you will need:

• 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

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [e-mail]

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee’s role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation-including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.