Rippling
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial AI Product
$168K–$280K
Seattle, WA +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
About the job
Build and scale AI-enabled backend systems for financial workflows, combining model-driven reasoning with reliable, auditable financial execution.
What you'll do
- Build AI-powered capabilities for financial workflows such as onboarding, reconciliation, validation, and exception handling.
- Develop ingestion, evaluation, testing, observability, and feedback systems for production AI workflows.
- Partner across product, design, operations, compliance, and platform teams to turn complex workflows into reliable products.
What they ask 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.
- Ability to distinguish where AI is appropriate from where deterministic systems should take over, and to build guardrails.
Nice to have
- Interest in applied AI, LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, structured extraction, or AI-assisted workflows.
- Product sense and comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces.
Pay
USD 168,000–280,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AI, LLMs
AI focus
Apply AI to interpret inconsistent financial data, automate review, surface exceptions, explain outcomes, and accelerate implementation, with deterministic controls, validation, and quality measurement.
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