Software Engineer - II (Backend)

About the Compliance & Work Authorization (CWA) Team

Building the backbone of global employment compliance. At Rippling, the Compliance and Work Authorization (CWA) team powers one of the most complex and high-impact parts of the global HR stack — ensuring every employee, in every country, is legally and compliantly employed. We build systems that automate and enforce compliance for millions of users and thousands of companies, across hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits, and more.

Our core products include:

1. Compliance 360: A unified platform for defining, validating, and enforcing jurisdiction-specific rules across countries and roles.

2. Work Authorization: Scalable global work authorization, specifically US based I-9 & E-Verify systems for automated verification and smarter document management.

3. Policy Seeding & Compliance Architecture: A real-time policy framework powering 2.13K+ active compliance rules and 1.68B daily evaluations.

4. Employment verification: Automates employment verification requests and securely integrates with third-party verification systems.

5. Compliance reporting: Reporting engine to empower EEOC and CPDR reporting for the customers to be compliant.

And many more, we’re not just keeping companies and employees compliant; we’re driving significant business revenue by solving critical customer problems in employment verification and e-verify automation.

What You'll Do

This isn’t routine CRUD work — it’s high-scale, real-time orchestration of compliance data across multiple geographies, products, and workflows. You will work on distributed validation systems, data ingestion pipelines, AI-powered OCR for document verification, and integrations with official country government systems.

• Develop high-quality software with meticulous attention to detail.
• Continuously ship incremental updates at a rapid pace.
• Collaborate with different teams to prioritize enhancements that drive revenue growth.
• Interact with customers, providing support to ensure their success with Rippling.
• Become the go-to expert on Rippling's customers and competition.

What You'll Do

• Your code will directly determine whether thousands of employees across 170+ countries can legally work tomorrow.
• You’ll architect systems that process billions of validations and terabytes of data daily.
• Collaborate with some of Rippling’s most talented engineers and product leaders — solving problems that most HR techs don’t even dare to touch.
• You will be building a global compliance engine that learns, adapts, and evolves — combining AI, rule-based systems, and regulatory insights.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a production environment - Our stack is Python, Django, React, MongoDB, and AWS - this is nice to have but not necessary to join
• You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers
• You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact

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.