Engineering Manager, HRIS Orchestration Platform

Rippling; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, driving modernization and scale of its core orchestration system used across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance. You will own architecture decisions while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with product and infra teams to deliver scalable, cross-country workflows.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical involvement, a strong backend/distributed systems background, and the ability to balance long-term architecture

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering with backend focus.
• Experience leading high-growth engineering teams.
• Proven ability to design and scale workflow orchestration systems.
• Hands-on in architecture, coding, reviews.
• Strong reliability, scalability, and performance focus.
• Excellent cross-functional partnership with product and infra.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team: Manage and support a team of senior and staff engineers responsible for one of Rippling’s most critical internal platforms.
• Drive the modernization of the HRIS Flow Platform: Lead technical strategy and execution for a foundational orchestration platform relied on across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance products.
• Build scalable workflow infrastructure: Help evolve the platform to support web, mobile, AI, and API-driven workflows on a unified orchestration layer while improving reliability, consistency, and developer velocity.
• Improve platform performance and resiliency: Design systems that support both synchronous and asynchronous processing at scale with a focus on durability, operational correctness, and user experience.
• Stay hands-on technically: Participate meaningfully in architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding. This is a player-coach role where strong technical depth and day-to-day engineering involvement are expected.
• Partner closely with internal product teams: Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver scalable developer-facing capabilities.
• Balance long-term architecture with fast execution: Make thoughtful technical tradeoffs while driving iterative delivery in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Help scale the organization over time: Support hiring and team growth as platform adoption and business complexity continue to expand.

Skills

Backend systems

Engineering management

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, driving modernization and scale of its core orchestration system used across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance. You will own architecture decisions while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with product and infra teams to deliver scalable, cross-country workflows.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical involvement, a strong backend/distributed systems background, and the ability to balance long-term architecture