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RipplingRipplingNew York, NY

Engineering Manager, HRIS Flow Platform

Lead and hands-on manage a team modernizing Rippling's core workflow orchestration platform supporting 300+ critical HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance workflows. Requires 6+ years engineering experience, prior engineering management, and deep distributed systems expertise.

180k – 310k
On-site6+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team of senior and staff engineers responsible for a critical internal workflow orchestration platform
  • Drive technical strategy and execution for modernizing the HRIS Flow Platform, a foundational orchestration system used across HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance products
  • Build scalable workflow infrastructure supporting web, mobile, AI, and API-driven workflows on a unified orchestration layer
  • Improve platform performance, reliability, and resiliency for both synchronous and asynchronous processing at scale
  • Participate hands-on in architecture discussions, design reviews, debugging, and coding as a player-coach
  • Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and partner engineering teams to deliver scalable developer-facing capabilities
  • Balance long-term architecture investments with fast execution in a rapidly evolving environment
  • Support hiring and team growth as platform adoption expands

Requirements

  • 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 ability to engage in architecture, implementation details, and engineering tradeoffs
  • Experience operating in environments where reliability, scalability, and performance are critical
  • Strong product and execution mindset with ability to balance platform investments against business needs
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and sequencing large-scale migrations or replatforming efforts
  • Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with AI-driven workflow experiences
  • Background in international/enterprise-scale platform modernization

Skills

Distributed SystemsWorkflow OrchestrationBackend EngineeringSystem DesignPlatform InfrastructureScalabilityReliability EngineeringArchitectureTeam LeadershipCross-Functional Collaboration

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