Software Engineer II

Job Title: Software Engineer II Company: Rippling Job Category: Python Developer Roles & Responsibilities: * Build backend and platform components for Rippling’s AI Platform. * Contribute to AI infrastructure supporting background agents, automated workflows, evals, data pipelines, and reliability systems. * 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. 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. Work Location: Bengaluru, India Availability: Full time

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. Qualifications * 3–5 years of software engineering experience, preferably in backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems. * 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. * Curiosity or exposure to AI agents, LLM infrastructure, automation systems, ML/data infrastructure, evals, or adjacent AI systems is a plus. Preferred qualifications * 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. Key Skills: Python, SQL Salary: INR 120000 - 180000 per yearly