Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Spend Product

Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.

About the role

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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We build the products that help companies control, automate, and gain real-time visibility into every way money moves through the business, from cards and expenses to bill pay and travel.

Responsibilities

• Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
• Own the design and implementation of core backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities and complex business logic.
• Ensure all systems are built for high-volume scale, reliability, and security, making strategic decisions about infrastructure and data integrity.
• Work seamlessly with product, frontend, and platform teams to translate feature goals into robust, high-performance technical solutions.
• Elevate the team's technical standards, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers on backend best practices.

Requirements

• 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.
• You have seen and contributed to systems operating at a 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.

Qualifications

• Experience with backend services and APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with relational databases and performance optimization.
• Experience with complex project delivery.
• Experience with communication with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

• Backend services and APIs.
• Distributed systems architecture.
• Relational databases and performance optimization.
• Complex project delivery.
• Communication with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + benefits + equity.
• Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process.
• Office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office) are required to work in the office, at least three days a week under current policy.

Pay

• The pay range for this role is: 159,000 - 278,250 USD per year (US Tier 1).

Schedule

• Office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office) are required to work in the office, at least three days a week under current policy.