# Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Emerging Products

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $168k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Distributed Systems, Data Modeling, Relational Databases, Performance Optimization, Backend Apis, System Architecture, Algorithms, Security
**Posted:** 2026-08-27

> Senior backend engineer responsible for designing secure, scalable services and APIs supporting workflows across financial operations, IT, identity, access, and compliance. Requires at least five years of production experience with Python, Go, or a comparable backend language, plus expertise in distributed systems and relational databases.

## Job Description

## 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 architectural and technical decisions involving infrastructure, data modeling, performance, and operational reliability.
- Translate ambiguous business and customer needs into robust technical solutions with product, frontend, platform, design, and cross-functional teams.
- Build and evolve systems for workflows, permissions, policy enforcement, financial operations, device and app management, procurement, and security controls.
- Improve engineering quality through system design, code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and backend best practices.
- Help create unified product experiences for managing employees, spend, devices, apps, access, and business operations.
- Support safe, reliable, explainable, auditable, and enterprise-ready AI-powered workflows.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of production engineering 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.

## Compensation
- US salary: $168,000–$280,000 annually, plus benefits and equity.

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