Rippling
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Financial Product
$168K–$280K
San Francisco, CA +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 13, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 5+ years in a production environment.
About the job
Build and maintain backend services and APIs for financial products, supporting reliable, secure, high-volume business processes such as money movement, payroll, and compliance.
What you'll do
- Design and implement core backend services and APIs for critical product capabilities and complex business logic.
- Make infrastructure and data-integrity decisions to ensure scale, reliability, and security.
- Collaborate across teams, lead code and design reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of production experience using Python, Go, or a similar high-scale backend language.
- Expertise in distributed systems architecture, data modeling, and relational database performance optimization.
- Experience contributing to systems at significant technical and organizational scale.
- Strong CS and algorithms fundamentals, complex project delivery experience, and exceptional stakeholder communication.
Pay
CAD 156,000–260,000 per year (base salary); USD 168,000–280,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go
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