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About the Role
Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Documents Platform team. This team develops the core backend platform for document-centric experiences across Rippling, offering flexible and scalable capabilities for internal product teams, AI workflows, and third-party developers. This is a high-impact role focused on building foundational infrastructure, including APIs, services, data models, and distributed systems, to make documents a first-class platform primitive. The leader will guide a team, define technical vision, and combine people management with deep technical expertise in architecture, system design, and implementation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of backend and platform engineers responsible for Rippling’s core Documents Platform.
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for making document capabilities a reusable platform primitive across Rippling.
- Build scalable APIs and backend services that allow internal product teams, AI and agentic workflows, and external developers to build document-based experiences.
- Drive the evolution of existing document infrastructure into a generalized platform that can serve use cases across Rippling rather than being tightly coupled to any one product area.
- Own complex technical decisions across distributed systems, data models, storage, APIs, reliability, and scalability.
- Stay deeply engaged in technical design and architecture while creating the environment for engineers to independently execute at a high level.
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams across Rippling to understand their requirements and translate them into durable platform capabilities.
- Establish clear abstractions and platform interfaces that allow teams to move quickly without needing to understand or rebuild the underlying document infrastructure.
- Build for long-term scale, extensibility, reliability, and developer experience as adoption of the platform grows.
- Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team while setting a high bar for technical quality and execution.
Requirements
- Significant engineering leadership experience, including experience managing and developing high-performing backend or platform engineering teams.
- A strong technical foundation in backend engineering, with the depth to actively participate in architecture and system design discussions.
- Experience building and operating large-scale platforms, infrastructure, or foundational backend systems used by multiple products or engineering teams.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, databases, data layers, APIs, and scalable service architectures.
- Experience designing abstractions and reusable platform capabilities rather than building exclusively for a single product or use case.
- A track record of leading technically complex, cross-functional initiatives with broad organizational impact.
- Strong judgment around scalability, reliability, system boundaries, API design, and long-term architectural tradeoffs.
- The ability to move between technical strategy, hands-on architectural leadership, people management, and execution.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working with multiple engineering and product teams that depend on your platform.
- Experience with document infrastructure, developer platforms, workflow systems, or similarly complex platform domains is a plus.
- Experience building infrastructure that powers AI or agentic workflows is a plus.
Work Type
- Office-based
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary + benefits + equity
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 accommodations@rippling.com