Director Of Engineering

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. 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. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.8B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses. About The Role We’re building a world-class Spend org in Bangalore and looking for a senior engineering leader to serve as our local site lead while directly owning the Accounting Integrations team. This is a rare 0 to 1 plus scale role: you’ll stand up the Bangalore hub, hire and coach managers and ICs, and ship the accounting integration platform that powers Rippling’s finance suite (corporate cards, reimbursements, travel, and accounting automation). You’ll wear two hats: Site Lead (matrix): Be the senior presence for Spend in Bangalore—set a high bar, unblock teams, drive performance management, and ensure crisp product<>engineering execution across reimbursements, travel integrations, and accounting integrations. Direct Owner (line): Lead the Accounting Integrations team to build both the platform and the first wave of integrations (e.g., QuickBooks, Microsoft, and others). You’ll create repeatable pipelines, operational tooling, and the quality bar for how Rippling ships integrations. If you thrive on ownership, love building teams and systems, and want material impact on a product with massive TAM, this is for you. Why this role? 0 to 1 with leverage: Your platform unlocks multiple product lines (Spend, Travel, Payroll). Massive scope: Travel + Spend are multibillion-dollar markets; integrations are a core growth lever. Career runway: Build the Bangalore Spend org from the ground up and shape the architecture and culture that others scale What You'll Do Build the Bangalore hub: Hire, level, and grow a 25+ person org; stand up rituals, on-call, quality bars, and velocity tracking. Own Accounting Integrations end-to-end: Define the technical roadmap and delivery plan for an integrations platform that serves both Spend and Payroll; ship the next set of GA integrations. Raise the execution bar: Diagnose churn early, clarify requirements, and drive PR/Design quality; get teams shipping the right thing, fast. Manage managers + ICs: Mentor junior EMs; directly manage ICs initially and transition scope as leaders ramp. Operational excellence: Build support and observability for integrations (routing, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, data quality, SLAs). Partner deeply: Work with Product, Design, GTM, and Finance Ops to prioritize impact, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly. Scale through platforms: Establish reusable contracts, SDKs, tooling, and CI/CD standards so new integrations land in weeks—not quarters. Be the site leader: Set crisp goals, run calibration, address underperformance fast, and model hands-on, detail-oriented leadership. Qualifications 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers or large multi-team groups Proven 0 to 1 and scale experience: shipped platforms or integrations with high reliability and throughput You like being technical. Strong technical depth in distributed systems, APIs/webhooks, and data modeling. Comfortable reviewing designs and PRs Operational mindset: built systems with monitoring, alerting, rate limits, retries, reconciliation, and clear SLOs/SLAs P