Software Engineer II, Backend Full Stack – Financial Product

Rippling; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling’s Financial Product Engineering team is building a unified global financial system that integrates HR, IT, payroll, and other workforce data. This role focuses on backend logic, API development, and data integrity, while also contributing to frontend work to deliver cohesive user experiences.

You will own features end-to-end across the stack, collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure reliable performance and scalable systems that support global payroll, spend management,

Qualifications

• 2 years of professional experience with a focus on full-stack development.
• Experience using backend language (Python/Go) and frontend technologies like React/TypeScript.
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments, quickly switching context between frontend and backend work.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Full-stack development

Python/Go

React/TypeScript

API design

Data integrity

Job description

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.

We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.

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

• 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 facts
• 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 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 pay range for this role is:

152,000 – 225,000 USD per year(San Francisco Office)

135,000 – 225,000 USD per year(US Tier 1)