Staff Backend Engineer - Core Experience & Scale

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build Core Experience systems that power onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and platform primitives.

You will own end-to-end design and implementation, collaborating with product and design to shape features, ensure scalability, reliability, and high-quality APIs across Rippling's multi-product environment. This role emphasizes building foundational systems to empower multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend systems.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant backend services.
• Strong collaboration with product and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems powering Core Experience onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and shared platform primitives.
• Own API contracts, schema design, performance, reliability, and observability in production.
• Work with product and design to shape features and drive scalable solutions.

Skills

Backend systems

Systems thinking

Full stack

Platform instinct

Python

Go

Java

Data modeling

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

REST APIs

Job description

Rippling is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build Core Experience systems that power onboarding, self-serve purchasing, and platform primitives.

You will own end-to-end design and implementation, collaborating with product and design to shape features, ensure scalability, reliability, and high-quality APIs across Rippling's multi-product environment. This role emphasizes building foundational systems to empower multiple engineering teams.