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 365all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world's top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About The Team
The Tax & Finance organization at Rippling is seeking a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager to lead one of the company's most critical and strategic product lines.
At Rippling, we manage over $50+ billion in funds and $15+ billion in taxes annually for thousands of businesses and millions of employees. We're building a cutting-edge taxation and filing system integrated seamlessly with our payroll software, enabling effortless and precise tax management for our growing client base.
Our systems are designed to scale both horizontally and vertically to support increasing volumes of customers and transactions. The platform processes over 20 million transactional records, ensuring data accessibility across 100+ dimensions. It supports 4,000+ tax types across 1,000+ tax authorities, generating 50+ million unique documents and enabling tax payments exceeding $15 billion annually. The platform's innovative architecture is built to handle structured and unstructured document processing, with the potential to be utilized across multiple teams within Rippling.
About The Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team working on impactful, high-scale projects critical to thousands of businesses and millions of employees. Your work will drive Rippling's success by building modern, scalable solutions for complex tax and finance workflows.
You'll collaborate with a talented, creative, and growth-oriented team, driving technical decisions that shape the future of Rippling's platform. Join us to solve challenging problems, empower businesses, and elevate the tax and finance experience to new heights.
What You Will Do
- Lead a team of passionate software 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
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- 3+ years of experience in managerial roles, including experience managing managers
- 12+ years of professional work experience in software development
