Engineering Leadership

rippling; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to drive the development of core platform products. You will collaborate with design, product management, and other engineering leaders to shape the vision and strategy for a fast-paced, startup environment.

With 15+ years in software development and 10+ years in leadership, you will recruit, mentor, and scale mid to large teams while delivering large-scale software platforms and product ownership for customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building products and teams from the ground up.
• 15+ years in software development and delivery with deep software architecture knowledge.
• 10+ years as an engineering leader building, managing, scaling mid to large teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Experience building large-scale software platforms.
• Proven ability to recruit, organize, and motivate teams.
• Strong ownership mindset and customer-focused problem solving.
• Excellent project management and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams and leaders to unify core platform products.
• Collaborate with design and product management to drive vision and strategy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team recruitment

Product ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Job description

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 $1.4B from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Bedrock, and Greenoaks, 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.

What You'll Do

• You will be responsible for working collaboratively with other cross-functional teams and leaders to bring together a suite of core platform products.


• Work cross functionally with design leadership and product management leadership to drive the vision and strategy of this organization


• Responsible for thinking about the team from both a platform mindset as well as a product oriented mindset


• Drive engineering initiatives like architectural changes & hiring process changes


• Provide technical leadership and vision in a widely scoped engineering team.


• Capable of driving development of products and platforms in a fast paced, startup environment

Qualifications

• Experience building products and team from the ground up


• At least 15 years of experience in software development and delivery, with in-depth knowledge of software architectures


• At least 10 years of experience as an Engineering leader in building, managing, scaling mid to large sized development teams


• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, information technology, or experience in a relevant field


• Experience building large scale software platform


• Proficiency in recruiting, organizing, and motivating teams


• You care about product ownership and solving problems for our customers.


• Team development skills: ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, offer engineering advice, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers, and ensure everyone delivers quality results


• Great project management skills to lead, care about product ownership, an outstanding customer-centric mindset, and solving problems for our customers.