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Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services and APIs for critical product capabilities.
- Build reliable, secure, and scalable systems for high-volume workflows across Spend, IT, identity, access, approvals, and compliance.
- Make strategic decisions involving architecture, infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability.
- Translate business and customer needs into technical solutions 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 engineering standards through system design, code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and backend best practices.
- Support safe, reliable, explainable, auditable, and enterprise-ready AI-powered workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production experience using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and relational database performance optimization.
- Experience contributing to systems operating at significant technical and organizational scale.
- Strong computer science and algorithms fundamentals.
- Experience delivering complex projects.
- Exceptional communication skills with technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
- Office-based employees are currently expected to work in the office at least three days per week.
- Rippling provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process and is an equal opportunity employer.
About Rippling
Rippling builds a unified workforce management platform that combines HR, payroll, IT, and finance software for businesses on a single system. Its SaaS suite covers onboarding, payroll, time tracking, benefits, device and identity management, spend/expenses, and accounting integrations with ERPs like NetSuite, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Oracle. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rippling is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises.