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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Emerging Products

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$168k - $280kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing and building backend services, APIs, and platform primitives powering Rippling’s multi-product platform, with a focus on permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device and app management, procurement, asset tracking, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive workforce and financial data, and contributing to AI-powered workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and implementation of backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities.
  • Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems for high-volume workflows across Spend, IT, identity, access, approvals, and compliance.
  • Make strategic technical decisions around architecture, infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability.
  • Translate ambiguous business and customer needs into robust technical solutions in partnership with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross-functional teams.
  • Build and evolve systems involving workflows, permissions, policy enforcement, financial operations, device and app management, procurement, and security controls.
  • Raise the technical bar through system design, code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and backend engineering best practices.
  • Help create unified product experiences that replace fragmented point solutions for managing employees, spend, devices, apps, access, and business operations.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in a production environment using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization of relational databases.
  • Experience with systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
  • Strong understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals and experience with complex project delivery.
  • Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Backend programming (Python/Go)Distributed systemsRelational databasesCS fundamentalsCommunication

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business, combining HR, IT, and Finance apps on a unified data platform.

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