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Senior Engineering Manager - Benefits Marketplace

Rippling· Engineering
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Bangalore, Indiafull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager leading and scaling a high-performing team within Rippling’s Benefits Marketplace, owning technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex distributed systems and carrier integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, attracting, mentoring, and developing exceptional engineering talent.
  • Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of critical Benefits Marketplace products and services.
  • Build scalable, reliable backend systems supporting benefits enrollment, eligibility, carrier integrations, and complex business workflows.
  • Drive architectural decisions involving distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, data consistency, and fault tolerance.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Platform, and senior engineering leaders to define roadmaps and translate ambiguous business problems into scalable solutions.
  • Stay technically engaged through system design reviews, architectural discussions, critical code reviews, and production troubleshooting.
  • Lead end-to-end product development, balancing execution velocity, engineering quality, and long-term scalability.
  • Build a culture of strong ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • 12-17 years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Strong technical foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, system design, and scalable architecture.
  • Proven experience building and scaling complex, customer-facing products from conception to production.
  • Strong coding and architectural expertise in languages such as Java, Python, Go, C++, Scala, or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing engineering teams, develop senior engineers, and maintain a high technical bar.
  • Strong product mindset with the ability to translate customer and business needs into technical strategy and execution.
  • Experience driving engineering roadmaps, setting priorities, managing dependencies, and delivering complex initiatives.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, make sound technical trade-offs, and influence decisions across teams.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across global engineering and product organizations.

Skills

Required:backend engineeringdistributed systemssystem designleadershipproduct mindset
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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