# Engineering Manager, HRIS Flow Platform

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $180k – $310k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Workflow Orchestration, Backend Engineering, System Design, Platform Infrastructure, Scalability, Reliability Engineering, Architecture, Team Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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