Engineering Manager, HRIS Flow Platform

Overview

Rippling provides a unified platform for managing HR, IT, and Finance operations. The company focuses on bringing together various workforce systems into a single system to streamline the employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for the HRIS Flow Platform.
• Drive the modernization of the HRIS Flow Platform to support complex workflows across countries, industries, employment types, and product surfaces.
• Build scalable workflow infrastructure to improve reliability, consistency, and developer velocity.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding to ensure technical depth and day-to-day engineering involvement.
• Partner closely with internal product teams to understand platform needs and deliver scalable developer-facing capabilities.
• Balance long-term architecture with fast execution by making thoughtful technical tradeoffs and driving iterative delivery in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Support hiring and team growth as platform adoption and business complexity expand.

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 to the business.
• Strong product and execution mindset with the ability to balance platform investments against customer and business needs.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, prioritizing technical investments, and sequencing large-scale migrations or replatforming efforts.
• Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of senior and staff engineers.
• Knowledge of HRIS systems and workflow orchestration.
• Experience with cloud services and infrastructure.
• Understanding of financial and payroll systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

Benefits

Rippling offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity package. The company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. Rippling is an equal opportunity employer and highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.

Schedule

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees, working in the office, at least three days a week, is considered an essential function of the role.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $186,000 - $310,000 USD per year, depending on location and experience. 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.

Company Information

Rippling is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. The company has raised $1.4B+ from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock. Rippling was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.