# Software Engineer II, Backend

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $135k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Backend Development, APIs, Distributed Systems, Python, Java, Go, LLMs, agents, Observability, testing, reliability engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Build and own backend systems, APIs, and agent infrastructure for Rippling's AI platform powering autonomous workflows, agents, and intelligent automation across HR, IT, and Finance products. Requires 2+ years professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in production backend or platform systems.

## Job Description

## 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.

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