Engineering Manager - Benefits Marketplace

About the Benefits Team at Rippling:

Employers and employees spend over $5 trillion annually on benefits globally. These include products like health insurance, retirement savings plans, and various other employee benefits that help families navigate critical life decisions. Despite their importance, the benefits industry still needs to be updated, costly and confusing for users.

Rippling is transforming this landscape by building the first modern multi-sided marketplace that seamlessly connects brokers, employers, and employees with any benefit. Our platform powers the discovery, purchase, and utilisation of benefits products globally, making the experience easier, more affordable, and user-friendly.

Our Benefits Vertical Includes:

• Benefits Platform: Powers recommendations, payments, and our benefits eligibility engine.
• Benefits Marketplace: Features over 100 partners, providing various benefits options to meet diverse needs.
• Rippling Benefits Products: Natively built products that integrate into the overall platform, enhancing user experience and engagement.

The engineering team behind the Benefits vertical works on innovative, scalable solutions that shape the future of this industry. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex systems, contribute to impactful projects, and help build the future of benefits.

What you will do

• Lead a team of passionate software engineers that prides itself on ownership and impact
• 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
• Be hands-on in technical architecture/reviews, and if/as needed, make contributions to code
• Own the ultimate outcome and success of critical product line(s).

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
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering manager, including experience managing managers
• 10+ years of professional work experience in software development