Software Engineer II

• Build backend and platform components for Ripplings 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.

Qualifications

• 35 years of software engineering experience preferably in backend platform infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on coding ability; 7080% 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.

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