Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - Spend Product

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA, WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is hiring for a backend engineering role based in San Francisco, CA. You will own backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities, ensuring we support real-time, high-volume workflows with robust security and reliability.

The role requires 5+ years of production experience with Python/Django and frontend familiarity (React/TypeScript). You will collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into scalable solutions, while mentoring

Qualifications

• 5+ years production experience with Python or Django.
• Frontend experience with React or TypeScript.
• Experience scaling systems at large technical scope.
• Strong CS fundamentals and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of core backend services and APIs.
• Ensure high-volume scale, reliability, and security, with data integrity.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high-performance solutions.
• Mentor engineers, lead code and design reviews, and raise technical standards.

Skills

Python

Django

React

Typescript

System design

Product intuition

Communication

Algorithms

Job description

About the Spend Product Team

We build the system that gives companies real time visibility and control over every dollar they spend. Rippling Spend unifies corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel into a single workflow that connects directly to accounting and payroll. Unlike point solutions that reconcile after the fact, we enforce policy, approvals, and accounting in real time. That lets finance teams operate proactively, and it creates a hard systems problem across payments, data consistency, permissions, and scale. If you like building deeply integrated platforms that replace fragmented tooling, this is the work

What We Build

We build the products that help companies control, automate, and gain real-time visibility into every way money moves through the business, from cards and expenses to bill pay and travel.

• Corporate Cards: Rippling Corporate Cards powers company spending through physical and virtual cards with built‑in controls, configurable limits, and policy enforcement. For engineering candidates, it’s a chance to work on payments infrastructure, risk systems, authorization flows, and high‑trust financial user experiences.


• Expense Management: Rippling Expense Management helps employees submit expenses and helps finance teams review, approve, and reimburse them in a streamlined workflow. From an engineering standpoint, it brings together policy engines, approvals, mobile and web experiences, and deep integrations with payroll and accounting systems.


• Bill Pay: Rippling Bill Pay gives companies a unified way to manage vendor invoices, approval chains, and outgoing payments. It’s a product area that combines document ingestion, workflow automation, financial operations, and money movement in a single system.


• Travel: Rippling Travel connects booking workflows with the rest of the spend stack so travel activity, approvals, and downstream reconciliation all live in one ecosystem. For engineers, it’s an opportunity to build across booking experiences, policy enforcement, compliance, and post‑purchase spend workflows.


• Procurement: Rippling Procurement provides a centralized way for employees to request, approve, and manage purchases before money is spent. It brings together intake workflows, approval chains, vendor coordination, and purchase tracking into a single system. From an engineering perspective, it involves building flexible workflow engines, dynamic forms, vendor management systems, and deep integrations with bill pay, accounting, and policy enforcement to ensure spend is controlled from the very first request.


• Banking: Rippling Banking enables companies to store, move, and manage their money with built‑in controls and real‑time visibility. It brings together accounts, transfers, cash management, and reconciliation into a single system tightly integrated with the broader spend stack. From an engineering perspective, it spans ledgering systems, money movement rails, compliance and risk controls, and high‑reliability infrastructure to ensure accuracy, security, and trust at scale.

What you will do

• Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities and complex business logic.


• Ensure all systems are built for high‑volume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic decisions about infrastructure and data integrity.


• Work seamlessly with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high‑performance technical solutions.


• Elevate the team's technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.

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.