What you will do

Design and build backend systems that power Core Experience's highest-leverage surfaces: onboarding flows, self-serve purchasing, and the shared platform primitives other product teams rely on
Take technical ownership end-to-end, from schema design and API contracts to performance, reliability, and observability in production
Work directly with product and design to shape how features get built, not just implement what's handed to you
Build for scale and reuse: the systems you design will be consumed by other engineering teams across Rippling, so correctness, documentation, and thoughtful abstraction matter

About you

8+ years of professional software engineering, with a strong track record in backend systems
Systems thinking: You design for scale, fault tolerance, and correctness from the start. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability, and you know when simple is the right answer and when it isn't
Full-stack range: You're backend-leaning but comfortable owning a feature end-to-end
High agency: You identify the problem before you're asked, scope a solution, and execute. You don't need a well-defined ticket to make progress
Platform instinct: You think about your work as infrastructure others will build on, and you write code and design APIs accordingly
Tech stack: Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and strong data modeling skills across SQL and NoSQL