Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Emerging Products

Rippling•Seattle, WA

2d•$168,000 - $280,000•Onsite

About The Position

Rippling’s Emerging Products teams, spanning Core Experience, Spend, and IT Products, build deeply integrated systems across financial operations, IT administration, employee lifecycle automation, and enterprise security. These are high-trust product areas where reliability, correctness, security, and scale are critical. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build the services, APIs, and platform primitives that power complex workflows across Rippling’s multi-product platform. You’ll work on systems involving permissions, policy enforcement, approvals, payments, device and app management, procurement, asset tracking, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive workforce and financial data. This role also supports Rippling’s expansion of AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and core platform experiences. You’ll help make AI capabilities safe, reliable, explainable, auditable, and enterprise-ready, while ensuring customers have the trust, transparency, and control needed to adopt automation at scale.

Requirements

Design and implementation of backend services and APIs
Building reliable, secure, and scalable systems
Making strategic technical decisions around architecture, infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability
Translating ambiguous business and customer needs into robust technical solutions
Building and evolving systems involving workflows, permissions, policy enforcement, financial operations, device and app management, procurement, and security controls
Raising the technical bar through system design, code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and backend engineering best practices
Creating unified product experiences

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.