# Senior Engineering Manager - Tax Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Tax Calculation, Payroll, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Production Debugging, AI, Caching, Parallelism, Paye, Financial Systems
**Posted:** 2026-04-24

> Leads the engineering organization responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and globally expanding Rippling’s tax calculation platform. The role requires deep technical expertise, operational transformation experience, and substantial engineering management experience, including managing managers.

## Job Description

## What You Will Need

- **Technical depth:** Read code, debug production issues, review architecture, and identify root causes in complex systems.
- **Operational transformation:** Drive high-toil, operationally demanding systems toward stability and autonomy by fixing systemic issues.
- **Product and platform experience:** Build scalable platform systems end-to-end while owning technical architecture and product outcomes.
- **Stakeholder collaboration:** Work cross-functionally with Payroll, Compliance, Finance Engineering, and global stakeholders.
- **Execution:** Set roadmaps, define milestones, and ship in high-ambiguity environments.
- **People leadership:** Minimum 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, with 7–8 years as an individual contributor beforehand.
- **Domain affinity:** Payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems experience is strongly preferred.
- **Communication:** Communicate clearly and effectively across distributed teams and with non-engineering stakeholders.
- **Experience:** 12–17 years total, combining individual contributor and managerial experience.

## Responsibilities

- Take direct ownership of reducing operational burden by identifying root causes of recurring failures, manual workflows, and correctness gaps.
- Drive systematic fixes rather than workarounds until the tax engine runs autonomously with minimal human intervention.
- Own and evolve the engine computing federal, state, and local taxes across 5,000+ US tax codes for millions of employees.
- Maintain correctness and sub-SLA latency as non-negotiable constraints.
- Lead AI-powered tax explainability, surfacing granular, human-readable explanations for every tax calculation and referencing the underlying rule, rate table, or exemption.
- Architect the tax computation pipeline for companies with 50,000+ employees within strict SLAs.
- Solve for parallelism, caching, incremental recomputation, and latency under payroll-run pressure.
- Design and ship abstractions that expand the tax engine beyond the US into 10+ countries.
- Build a jurisdiction-agnostic calculation framework supporting PAYE, social contributions, withholding tables, and multi-tier brackets.
- Build tooling and frameworks that enable new-country tax-rule launches without rewriting the engine.

## Benefits and Other Information

- Rippling values employees working in-office to foster collaboration and company culture.
- Office-based employees are currently expected to work in the office at least three days per week.

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