# Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech Platform 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
- 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/8abb5fbe-86b0-4fab-a7be-d7c7d15e75d2?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-senior-software-engineer-backend-fintech-platform/

## 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 backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure
- Strong engineering judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response
- Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers
- Interest in fintech or financial infrastructure, experience with payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems is a plus
- Familiarity with technologies such as Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Spark, Flink, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS is helpful, but not required

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-senior-software-engineer-backend-fintech-platform/