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Rippling is a unified platform for HR, IT, and Finance operations, enabling businesses to manage the entire employee lifecycle in a single system. The company has raised $1.4B+ from top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and Sequoia.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Emerging Products team, you will design and build the services, APIs, and platform primitives that power complex workflows across Rippling's multi-product platform. The Emerging Products organization spans Core Experience, Spend, and IT Products, building deeply integrated systems across financial operations, IT administration, employee lifecycle automation, and enterprise security.
You'll work on high-trust systems where reliability, correctness, security, and scale are critical. Key areas include permissions and policy enforcement, approval workflows, payments processing, device and app management, procurement, asset tracking, auditability, and secure handling of sensitive workforce and financial data.
This role also supports Rippling's expansion of AI-powered workflows across HR, IT, Finance, Spend, and core platform experiences. You'll help make AI capabilities safe, reliable, explainable, auditable, and enterprise-ready, ensuring customers have the trust, transparency, and control needed to adopt automation at scale.
Responsibilities include owning the design and implementation of backend services and APIs that power critical product capabilities, contributing to platform architecture decisions, and collaborating across product and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.
