Software Engineer II, Backend

What you will do

• Build and ship product and platform features that help teams use AI reliably across Rippling.
• Work on backend systems, APIs, evaluation tools, and internal platform capabilities that support AI-powered workflows.
• Implement well-scoped pieces of agent infrastructure, including integrations, orchestration logic, monitoring, and quality checks.
• Write clean, maintainable code and tests, and participate in code reviews with a focus on correctness, reliability, and simplicity.
• Debug production issues, improve observability, and help make AI systems easier to understand and operate.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to clarify requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Learn quickly as AI tools and model capabilities evolve, and apply new approaches where they improve reliability or user experience.
• Contribute to team documentation, implementation plans, and shared engineering practices.

What you will need

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably building backend, platform, infrastructure, or product systems.
• Strong coding fundamentals and the ability to independently deliver well-defined projects or substantial parts of larger projects.
• Experience building production systems with attention to reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, APIs, data models, asynchronous workflows, or service-oriented architectures.
• Ability to break down ambiguous tasks, ask good questions, and make steady progress with guidance from senior engineers.
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining implementation tradeoffs, edge cases, and project status.
• Interest in AI products, LLMs, agents, evaluation, or automation systems; direct hands-on experience is a plus but not required.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where requirements may change as the product and technology mature.