Staff Backend Engineer — Core Experience & Platform

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 189,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is hiring for a backend-focused senior engineer to design and build core experiences powering onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and shared platform surfaces. You will own end-to-end systems, from schema design to production observability, and collaborate closely with product and design to shape features beyond handed tickets.

You will work on scalable backend architectures, emphasizing reliability and API quality, with a focus on reusable components across Rippling’s multi-product

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong background in designing scalable backend systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java and data modeling across SQL/NoSQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems powering Core Experience onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and platform primitives.
• Take end-to-end ownership from schema design to performance and observability in production.
• Collaborate with product and design to shape feature implementation beyond handed requirements.
• Build for scale and reuse so Rippling teams rely on your infrastructure.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Go

Java

SQL

NoSQL

APIs

System design

Job description

Rippling is hiring for a backend-focused senior engineer to design and build core experiences powering onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and shared platform surfaces. You will own end-to-end systems, from schema design to production observability, and collaborate closely with product and design to shape features beyond handed tickets.

You will work on scalable backend architectures, emphasizing reliability and API quality, with a focus on reusable components across Rippling’s multi-product