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About the Role
Rippling seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, responsible for the core workflow orchestration powering global employee and organizational changes. This strategic, hands-on role involves modernizing and scaling a critical internal platform to support future growth and complex workflows across various products and surfaces.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team of senior and staff engineers.
- Drive technical strategy and execution for the HRIS Flow Platform modernization.
- Build scalable workflow infrastructure supporting web, mobile, AI, and API-driven workflows.
- Improve platform performance and resiliency for synchronous and asynchronous processing.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams.
- Balance long-term architecture with fast, iterative execution.
- Support hiring and team growth to scale the organization.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or distributed systems foundation.
- Prior engineering management, tech lead management, or team leadership experience in a high-growth engineering environment.
- Strong systems design experience building or scaling workflow orchestration systems, distributed processing systems, or internal platform infrastructure.
- Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure products used by other engineering teams at scale.
- Strong technical depth and hands-on credibility with the ability to engage deeply in architecture, implementation details, and engineering tradeoffs.
- Experience operating in environments where reliability, scalability, and performance are critical.
- Strong product and execution mindset with the ability to balance platform investments against business needs.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, prioritizing technical investments, and sequencing large-scale migrations or replatforming efforts.
- Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills.
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Workflow orchestration
- Platform infrastructure
- Developer platforms
- Systems design
- Architecture
- Debugging
- Coding
- Product mindset
- Execution mindset
- Communication
- Cross-functional partnership
Location
- US-based
Work Type
- Office-based (at least three days a week)
Experience Level
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Prior engineering management, tech lead management, or team leadership experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Equity
About the Company
- Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
- Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Rippling is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and does 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 accommodations@rippling.com