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Engineering Manager, HRIS Flow Platform

Rippling· Engineering
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Hybrid (Toronto, Canada; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA)$186k - $310kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead the HRIS Flow Platform, a foundational workflow orchestration platform powering HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance products. Focus on modernization, scalability, and enabling global employee and organizational changes across web, mobile, APIs, and AI-driven experiences.

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.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend or distributed systems foundation.
  • Prior engineering management, tech lead management, or team leadership experience in a high-growth engineering environment.
  • Strong systems design experience building or scaling workflow orchestration systems, distributed processing systems, or internal platform infrastructure.
  • Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure products used by other engineering teams at scale.
  • Strong technical depth and hands-on credibility with the ability to engage deeply in architecture, implementation details, and engineering tradeoffs.
  • Experience operating in environments where reliability, scalability, and performance are critical to the business.
  • Strong product and execution mindset with the ability to balance platform investments against customer and business needs.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, prioritizing technical investments, and sequencing large-scale migrations or replatforming efforts.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringArchitecture and designManagement and leadershipDeveloper platforms / internal infraReliability, scalability, performance

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + benefits + equity.
  • Office-based role with in-office requirement emphasized for collaboration (three days a week where applicable).
  • Equity (as part of compensation).
  • Salary range for US-based employees: 186,000 - 310,000 USD per year depending on location.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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