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Senior Backend Engineer, Events

Rippling
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/22/2025

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. 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 even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world's 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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About The Role

Rippling"s special sauce is its ability to automatically react and understand changes and connections across many systems. Rippling developed a major platform that connects systems traditionally reliant on bespoke integrations or, in worse cases, spreadsheets. These systems encompass payroll, device management, and others.

The Events Platform Team builds and maintains a core piece of platform feature that makes magic happen across Rippling. Our mission is to transform Rippling into an event-based architecture, enabling customers to emit, listen to, and act on customizable events. Multiple products are built on top of our events framework, including Workflow triggers, Domain Events, and Audit Logs.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Events Platform Team, you will play a key role in delivering on this vision by building the fundamental system that makes the Events Platform highly scalable, reliable, and delightful for engineers.

What You"ll Do :

  • Work closely with stakeholders to design, implement, and maintain a highly scalable and reliable system.
  • Work closely with other engineers across the organization to drive adoption and enable teams to evolve existing products and quickly bring new products to market.
  • Ship high-quality software incrementally and consistently.

Qualifications :

  • 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Python or Golang.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to take ownership of work, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous learning.
  • Experience building scalable, reliable, distributed, event-driven systems is preferred.
  • Experience collaborating with product end-users to ensure software usability, accessibility, and performance.
  • Additional Information

    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 is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

    Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee"s 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 .

    A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation–including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

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