Engineering Manager, HRIS Flow Platform

Rippling (Netherlands); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, the orchestration backbone powering HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance workflows globally. You will guide modernization efforts, scale a high-impact internal platform, and stay hands-on in architecture while mentoring senior and staff engineers.

The role emphasizes delivering scalable, durable systems across web, mobile, APIs, and AI-driven experiences, with an opportunity to influence Rippling's international expansion

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with backend or distributed systems foundations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for one of Rippling's most critical internal platforms.
• Drive the modernization of the HRIS Flow Platform and technical strategy for a foundational orchestration platform used across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance products.
• Build scalable workflow infrastructure to support web, mobile, AI, and API-driven workflows on a unified orchestration layer.
• Improve platform performance and resiliency, focusing on durability, operational correctness, and developer velocity.
• Stay hands-on technically with architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding in a player-coach role.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver scalable capabilities.
• Balance long-term architecture with fast iteration and help scale the organization as adoption grows.

Skills

Software engineering

Job description

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, the orchestration backbone powering HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance workflows globally. You will guide modernization efforts, scale a high-impact internal platform, and stay hands-on in architecture while mentoring senior and staff engineers.

The role emphasizes delivering scalable, durable systems across web, mobile, APIs, and AI-driven experiences, with an opportunity to influence Rippling's international expansion