Software Engineer II, Backend - HR Product

Software Engineer II, Backend – HR Product

Rippling New York, NY, United States | Information Technology

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, such as payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example:
With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and third‑party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Rippling is based in San Francisco, CA, has raised $1.4B+ from top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.

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The HR Product Engineering team is the foundational layer of Rippling’s unified workforce management system. Our mission is to build seamless, global, and compliant systems that power the entire employee lifecycle, from hire to retire.

We operate at the intersection of HR, compliance, and enterprise software. Our products manage the most sensitive aspects of a company’s relationship with its people, requiring us to solve complex problems related to scale, data security, and multi‑product integration.

The team is organized around four core domains:

• HRIS (Human Resources Information System): Building the core employee record, organizational structure, and workflows that serve as the single source of truth for all other Rippling products.
• Time: Developing accurate, scalable, and globally compliant Time & Attendance systems, including clocking, time‑off accrual, and scheduling.
• Benefits: Creating and maintaining marketplace and administration tools for health, retirement, and other employee benefits.
• Talent: Designing products that manage employee growth, performance, and learning.

• Design, implement, and test reliable backend services and APIs that power core product features and business logic at scale.
• Work across key technical domains, including API design, data modeling, event modeling, and service performance optimization.
• Own the development lifecycle for defined features, from implementation and testing to deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Effectively integrate into cross‑functional teams, contribute to technical discovery, and learn rapidly from code and system feedback.

• 2+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer, preferably with Python, Go, or a similar production language, and strong experience with relational databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Strong focus on business impact, balancing technical craft with speed and the bottom line to deliver value quickly.
• Ability to thrive in fast‑paced, dynamic environments, demonstrating resilience and agility when product needs change.
• Excellent skills in communicating complex technical ideas with clarity to enable effective collaboration with peers and stakeholders.

Rippling is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process.

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Rippling highly values having employees working in‑office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office‑based employees living within a 40‑mile radius of a Rippling office, working in the office at least three days a week is an essential function of this role.

This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity. The salary for US‑based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location. Final offer amounts may vary.

Pay range: $152,000 – $225,000 USD per year (US Tier 1).