Senior Engineering Manager - Payroll

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. This is a high-impact role focused on platformizing one of the most critical components of Payroll—managing the payroll input and output flows that directly affect accurate, timely payroll processing for millions of employees globally. About the Team: You’ll join a dynamic and growing team responsible for the end-to-end product, system, and operational management of all incoming and outgoing payroll integrations—covering HRIS, Benefits, Time on the incoming side, and Accounting, Reports on the outgoing side. The team is evolving the integration platform with API and SDK support, leveraging trigger-action-based, sync/async mechanisms to build scalable, reusable, and observable solutions. What you will do Lead a team of passionate Senior and Staff engineers that prides itself on ownership and impact Be hands-on in technical architecture/reviews, and if/as needed, make contributions to code Drive on-time, high-quality product delivery. Drive adoption of engineering best practices Work with Product Managers to have a holistic view across engineering and product, and drive engineering and product strategy (wear a product manager hat when needed) Help the organization scale and grow with the business - attract and groom the best talent! Drive better efficiency and process improvement for various aspects of the team’s / product’s operations Own the outcome and success of critical product line(s) at Rippling. What you will need Outstanding customer-centric mindset, growth mindset, and a hunger for impact Strong coding, design, and architectural skills - be a technical leader for the team Demonstrated experience in customer-focused product leadership with a platform-centric approach. Strong background in data infrastructure, data engineering, and building scalable data pipelines. Proven ability to design and manage interoperable systems at scale. Experience owning end-to-end product lifecycle, including platform architecture, user experience, and operational support. Ability to collaborate effectively with global cross-functional teams and external vendors to deliver seamless payroll integrations. 12+ years of professional work experience in software development 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 of