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Senior Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, IndiaFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager leading Rippling’s Tax Calculation engine across 5,000+ US tax codes, driving system stabilization, global expansion, and AI-powered explainability within the Tax Platform.

Responsibilities

  • System Stabilization & Operational Excellence: Take direct ownership of reducing the team's operational burden. Identify root causes of recurring failures, manual workflows, and correctness gaps. Drive systematic fixes — not workarounds — until the engine runs autonomously with minimal human intervention.
  • Tax Calculation Engine at Scale: Own and evolve the core engine that computes federal, state, and local taxes across 5,000+ US tax codes for millions of employees — with correctness and sub-SLA latency as non-negotiable constraints.
  • AI-Powered Tax Explainability: Lead the effort to use AI to surface granular, human-readable explanations of every tax calculation — breaking down why each dollar was withheld, referencing the underlying rule, rate table, or exemption that drove it.
  • Enterprise Scale Performance: Architect the tax computation pipeline to support companies with 50,000+ employees within strict SLAs — solving for parallelism, caching, incremental recomputation, and latency under payroll run pressure.
  • Global Tax Expansion: Design and ship the abstractions that allow the tax engine to scale beyond the US into 10+ countries — building a jurisdiction-agnostic calculation framework that accommodates fundamentally different tax models.
  • Country Expansion Enablement: Build the tooling and frameworks that allow Rippling to onboard a new country's tax rules without rewriting the engine — enabling rapid country launches with high confidence in correctness.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, with 7–8 years as an IC prior.
  • Total 12–17 years (IC + Managerial).
  • Domain Affinity: Experience in payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems is strongly preferred.
  • Technical Depth: Comfortable going deep into complex systems — reading code, debugging production issues, reviewing architecture, and identifying root causes. Hands-on instinct essential.
  • Operational Transformation: Experience turning high-toil, operationally demanding systems into stable, autonomous ones.
  • Product & Platform Experience: Hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end, owning technical architecture and product outcomes.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work with cross-functional teams (Payroll, Compliance, Finance Engineering, global stakeholders).
  • Communication: Clear communication across distributed teams and with non-engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Technical depthOperational transformationProduct & Platform experienceStakeholder collaborationExecutionPeople leadership
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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