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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Full Stack - 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 services, APIs, and platform primitives powering complex workflows across Rippling’s multi-product platform, with a focus on reliability, security, and AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and improve both product backend capabilities and user-facing features, working across the stack to make them shine
  • 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.
  • 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, Django, or related technologies.
  • Familiarity in frontend development with React or typescript.
  • Exposure and hands on experience with systems operating at a significant technical and organizational scale
  • Strong product intuition: you care about design and user experience and are quick to identify how these could be improved.
  • Experience shipping complex projects
  • Deep understanding of CS/algorithms fundamentals
  • Strong communication skills with a variety of stakeholders

Skills

Required:PythonDjangoFrontend developmentSystems design and architectureCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities upon request
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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