Software Engineer II, Backend Full Stack - Financial Product

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Benefits

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a hands-on full‑stack engineer to join the Financial Product Engineering team in Seattle. You will design and implement backend features, build APIs, and contribute to frontend work, ensuring data integrity and a seamless user experience.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional partners across product and design, own end-to-end delivery, and help scale our global payroll, spend management, and banking platforms with robust, scalable software.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional full-stack development experience.
• Experience with backend languages (Python/Go) and frontend React/TypeScript.
• Ability to switch context between frontend and backend to accelerate delivery.
• Strong communication of technical trade-offs across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend features with API development and data integrity, and contribute to frontend implementation.
• Work across the stack focusing on API design, event modeling, and robust data management while connecting to UI.
• Own the full development lifecycle for features, ensuring backend architecture supports reliable functionality and frontend performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to understand requirements, refine scope, and drive reliable feature delivery.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend API design

Frontend technologies

Tools

Python

Go

React

TypeScript

Job description

About the Financial Product Team

The Financial Product Engineering team is at the forefront of Rippling's expansion into FinTech. Our mission is to build a unified, global financial system for businesses—one that is fundamentally integrated with the company's employee, HR, and IT data. We simplify complex, cross‑functional processes like global payroll, corporate spending, and expense management, ensuring businesses have precise control and real‑time visibility over all money movement.

What We Build

Our team builds and maintains the core financial products that enable businesses to operate seamlessly, covering areas such as:

• Global Payroll: Developing the systems for calculating, filing, and processing payroll across multiple countries, including tax logic, compliance, and direct money movement infrastructure.
• Spend Management: We’re building the system that gives companies total visibility and control over every dollar they spend. Our platform unifies corporate cards, reimbursements, procurement, bill pay, and travel into one integrated workflow that connects directly to accounting and payroll. Unlike point solutions, Rippling Spend ties policy enforcement, approvals, and accounting in real time, so finance teams can manage spend proactively instead of reconciling it after the fact.
• Banking & Fintech Infrastructure: We’re building the simplest, invisible, intelligent financial backbone for global money movement. This platform delivers secure, fault‑tolerant, scalable primitives for money movement, billing, reconciliation, compliance, and financial intelligence, enabling rapid launch of financial products with minimal effort, and zero disbursement failures or manual intervention.
• Tax & Compliance Platforms: Designing robust, scalable systems to handle complex, rapidly changing tax and regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. We operate in a zero tolerance domain for accuracy, timelines and compliance. Our platform manages calculation, setup, filings and payments of taxes for the US and ever expanding international markets.

What you will do

• Design and implement features with an emphasis on backend logic, API development, and data integrity, while also contributing to the frontend implementation.
• Work across the stack, focusing on API design, event modeling, and robust data management while ensuring a seamless connection to the user interface.
• Own the full development lifecycle for features, ensuring that the backend architecture supports both reliable functionality and excellent frontend performance.
• Work closely with cross‑functional partners to understand requirements, refine technical scope, and drive successful, reliable feature delivery.

What you will need

• 2+ years of professional experience with a focus on full‑stack development, demonstrating the ability to deliver reliable, end‑to‑end products using a backend language (e.g., Python/Go) and frontend technologies like React/TypeScript.
• Prioritize projects based on business impact, ensuring high‑quality implementation without unnecessary complexity.
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments, quickly switching context between frontend and backend work as needed to accelerate delivery.
• Excellent skills in communicating technical trade‑offs across the stack with clarity and precision to both frontend and backend partners.

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.