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Engineering Manager, Time Products

Rippling· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$186k - $310kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead the Time Products team at Rippling, driving a 0→1 platform initiative that automates time, leave, and workforce workflows with AI-enhanced capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Execution: Lead a full-stack team of 8+ engineers to deliver against a high-priority roadmap, balancing near-term product needs with long-term platform investments.
  • Own a Complex Domain: Build systems that manage leave policies, accruals, balances, approval workflows, and holiday calendars—ensuring correctness, flexibility, and a seamless user experience.
  • Design for Edge Cases: Develop scalable solutions that handle nuanced scenarios such as extended leave (e.g., parental, medical, or unpaid leave), including their downstream impact on payroll, benefits, and system access.
  • Architect Global Primitives: Evolve the system beyond hard-coded logic into a flexible, primitive-based engine that can support diverse and changing requirements across regions and companies.
  • Scale the Team: Raise the bar on engineering and leadership excellence by strengthening technical rigor, improving operational processes, and mentoring senior engineers. You will partner closely with a Staff Engineer to drive long-term technical vision.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product and partner teams to ensure Time Off integrates cleanly with payroll, benefits, compliance, and other core platform systems.
  • Innovate with AI: Leverage internal AI capabilities to introduce automation and intelligence into leave management workflows.
  • Maintain High Quality: Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of a system that serves as a daily touchpoint for employees and managers.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2–4+ years in an engineering management role, ideally within a high-growth environment.
  • Strong technical foundation with the ability to lead system design for distributed systems and engage deeply in architectural decisions when needed.
  • Product Mindset: You think beyond features and focus on building durable, flexible systems that support complex business workflows.
  • Experience working in domains with high correctness requirements and complex business logic (e.g., Fintech, HR Tech, Payroll, or Workforce Management) is highly preferred.
  • High Agency: Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements. You make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and long-term scalability.
  • Leadership Excellence: Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers while fostering a culture of accountability and high performance.

Skills

Required:Full-stack engineering leadershipDistributed systems designProduct sense

Benefits

  • competitive salary + benefits + equity
  • office-based role with in-office working policy (3 days/week in the office for eligible locations)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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