Engineering Manager - HRIS Platform, Hands-On Leader

Rippling (Netherlands); New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, the foundation for global employee management workflows across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance. This role combines strategic platform modernization with hands-on technical leadership to scale critical internal systems and enable rapid product growth.

You will guide a high-performing team, architect durable orchestration layers, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, reliable workflows

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or distributed systems foundation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team: Manage 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: 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 durability and user experience in mind.
• Stay hands-on technically: Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding as a player-coach.
• Partner closely with internal product teams: Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver scalable capabilities.
• Balance long-term architecture with fast execution: Make thoughtful technical tradeoffs while delivering iteratively in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Help scale the organization over time: Support hiring and team growth as platform adoption and business complexity expand.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Job description

Rippling is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform team, the foundation for global employee management workflows across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance. This role combines strategic platform modernization with hands-on technical leadership to scale critical internal systems and enable rapid product growth.

You will guide a high-performing team, architect durable orchestration layers, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, reliable workflows