# Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial AI Product at Rippling

- Company: Rippling
- What the company does: About Rippling 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, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://rippling.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $168K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/5fbd346a-7e22-4434-96d6-c73429b84fea?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-senior-software-engineer-backend-financial-ai-product/

## About the role

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at meaningful scale
- Experience designing backend systems, data models, APIs, workflows, or platform infrastructure for complex business domains
- Strong judgment around reliability, correctness, edge cases, and operational risk
- Interest in applied AI, LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, structured extraction, or AI-assisted workflows
- Ability to reason clearly about where AI should be used, where deterministic systems should take over, and how to build guardrails around model-driven workflows
- Product sense and comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces where the right answer is not obvious upfront

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-senior-software-engineer-backend-financial-ai-product/