Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

4 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Tax Platform. This role involves leading a high-impact engineering team focused on building foundational payroll platform components, including critical flows for processing, approvals, and corrections. The position offers significant influence on Rippling's growth and product future, requiring technical and business decision-making. The ideal candidate will take pride in building scalable products, developing winning teams, and attracting top talent. Key responsibilities include driving on-time, high-quality product delivery, adopting engineering best practices, collaborating with product managers and cross-functional partners, and empowering engineers through mentorship and ownership.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of professional experience in backend programming
  • 1+ year of experience managing engineers
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Experience managing the complete project lifecycle
  • Keen product sense for customer experiences
  • Excellent technical communication skills

Job Details

About Rippling


Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.


By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.


Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.84B 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 official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.



About the role


As a Engineering Leader you will lead a high-impact engineering team for building the foundational platform within payroll organization that enable and support critical flows around payroll processing, approvals, corrections and many more. 


In addition, this role will have a significant impact on Rippling’s growth and success, and make technical and business decisions which will shape the future of the product and company. We are looking for someone who takes immense pride in building excellent scalable products, building winning teams and being able to rally these towards a vision, and can attract and retain top talent.



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
  • Help shape the future of payroll architecture by collaborating with senior engineers, product managers , and cross-functional partners within Rippling
  • Help the organization scale and grow with the business - attract and grow the best talent!
  • Empower engineers to take ownership of projects, guiding them from initial product requirements through to launch, benefiting all customers.
  • Maintain a relentless commitment to elevating engineering standards within both the team and the organization as a whole.
  • Provide mentorship and opportunities for your team of engineers, nurturing their professional growth and success.
  • Identify inefficiencies within the team and drive process and system enhancements that will support scaling the team.

What you will need

  • Demonstrate a track record of 8+ years of professional experience utilizing a modern backend programming language (i.e. Python, Java, Kotlin, C++) for APIs, batch jobs, etc. 
  • Possess 1+ years of professional experience managing a team of engineers.
  • Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, providing you with a solid foundation to help mentor engineers to tackle complex technical problems and drive innovation.
  • Previous experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas into successful launches.
  • Demonstrate a keen product sense that advocates for delivering exceptional customer experiences.
  • Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely, both in written and verbal communication, while collaborating effectively across diverse functional teams.


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