Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $198,000 PA - $346,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Platform team. This role will oversee the Object Platform, which includes ZObjects, Custom Apps, and the Application Platform. The manager will lead a team of software engineers, setting technical vision and strategy to drive business outcomes. Responsibilities include ensuring successful platform adoption, establishing efficient engineering processes, fostering a culture of excellence, and growing and retaining a high-performing team. The role requires hands-on involvement in technical architecture and reviews, close collaboration with product, design, and cross-functional leaders, and a strong product intuition. The ideal candidate will have experience in delivering impactful products, managing engineering teams, building distributed systems and APIs, and working in fast-paced environments.
Must have:
  • 8+ years in engineering, delivering impactful products
  • 4+ years building and managing engineering teams
  • Experience with distributed systems and APIs
  • Experience with AWS & cloud-based SaaS
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives
  • Experience turning ideas into products
  • Proficiency in recruiting and motivating teams
Good to have:
  • Experience in dynamic environments
  • Strong product intuition
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams

Job Details

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 $1.4B+ 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.


About The Role


The Object Platform at Rippling is the core bet of our platform strategy. There are early signals making us confident in our approach. We set out in accomplishing three key goals:

  • ZObjects: A world class object store which brings the world of hybrid transactional and analytical (HTAP) capabilities to our customers and developers
  • Custom Apps: This object model can power non technical customers to build, model and automate their necessary business processes via a custom application builder providing what you see is what you get.
  • Application Platform: The same capabilities supercharge a world class application development platform for both first and third party developers

This senior engineering management role will oversee all three areas of this charter.

What You'll Do

  • Lead a team of passionate software engineers that pride themselves on ownership and impact
  • Setup vision and technical strategy to drive impactful business outcomes
  • Ensure the successful adoption of the platform by the engineering teams building our next generation of products and cloud offerings
  • Set up and maintain engineering processes that empower the team to move quickly
  • Develop a culture of engineering excellence and operational efficiency
  • Grow, educate, and retain a successful team with a high delivery cadence in an agile environment
  • Ensure your team ships products consistently at high quality and velocity
  • Be hands-on in technical architecture and reviews, provide technical leadership to the engineers, and be accountable for the technical decisions made on the team
  • Partner closely with engineers, product, design, and cross-functional leaders to help shape, sequence, and lead the team’s engineering work
  • Have a holistic view across engineering & product and drive strategy
  • Wear a product manager hat when needed

Qualifications

  • A minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, delivering impactful products
  • A minimum 4 years of experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams
  • Hands-on experience with building distributed systems, APIs, and working knowledge of AWS & cloud-based SaaS applications
  • Effectiveness at leading and executing large & complex technical initiatives
  • Experience in taking an idea and turning them into impactful products
  • Experience working in a fast-paced & dynamic environment 
  • Proficiency in recruiting, organizing, and motivating teams
  • Strong product intuition and experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams

Additional Information:


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 $1.4B+ 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.

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