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.
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
More about this role
Rippling’s Financial Product team builds the systems that power some of the most critical financial workflows for modern businesses — including payroll, payments, reconciliation, compliance, and operational finance.
These products sit at the intersection of money movement, employee trust, customer operations, and regulatory complexity. The work is high stakes: financial systems must be accurate, reliable, auditable, and resilient, even as they handle messy real-world data and complex business rules across customers, countries, and use cases.
We are using AI to make these workflows dramatically simpler. That means building systems that can interpret inconsistent data, automate manual review, surface exceptions, explain outcomes, and accelerate implementation — while preserving the deterministic controls financial products require. The goal is not AI for its own sake; it is practical, production-grade AI that helps customers run financial workflows with more speed, confidence, and accuracy.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will help define how AI becomes a core part of financial product and infrastructure at Rippling.
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