Software Engineer II

Overview

Build backend and platform components for Rippling's AI Platform, supporting background agents, automated workflows, evals, data pipelines, and reliability systems.

What you'll do

• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and scalable production code.
• Own well-defined features, services, or modules end-to-end with guidance from senior engineers.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, testing, debugging, and production support.
• Work with Senior, Staff, and Senior Staff engineers to translate technical designs into production systems.
• Build systems with strong attention to reliability, observability, scalability, and operational correctness.
• Develop understanding of AI platform concepts such as agents, LLM infrastructure, evals, workflow automation, and model quality loops.

What you'll need

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on coding ability; 70–80% coding expectation is non-negotiable.
• Strong programming knowledge in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go/Golang, C++, Scala, Kotlin, or C#.
• Good understanding of APIs, databases, data modeling, debugging, testing, and production systems.
• Ability to own well-defined engineering tasks and components with limited guidance.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn quickly in complex technical areas.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced product engineering environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems is preferred.
• Curiosity or exposure to AI agents, LLM infrastructure, automation systems, ML/data infrastructure, evals, or adjacent AI systems.
• Experience working on backend/platform systems at scale.
• Exposure to Python, SQL, data pipelines, workflow systems, or automation platforms.
• Prior experience in high-growth product companies or startup-like environments.
• Interest in AI platform infrastructure, agentic workflows, eval frameworks, or model-quality systems.
• Exposure to enterprise SaaS, fintech, HR tech, payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, or workflow-heavy platforms.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Office-based employees are expected to work in the office at least three days a week under current policy.