# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Analytics, Apache Presto, Apache Pinot, Data Connectors, Analytics Products, Product Roadmap, Technical Architecture, Code Maintainability
**Posted:** 2026-06-21

> Leads the Managed Connectors engineering team, overseeing distributed systems, scalable data connectors, analytics products, technical architecture, and delivery. Requires at least 8 years of software development experience, 3 years of engineering management experience, and strong team leadership skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the Managed Connectors team and scale the Bangalore engineering organization, including hiring staff engineers and managers.
- Drive product delivery, enforce engineering best practices, and oversee the design and implementation of complex distributed systems.
- Lead software engineers while fostering ownership, impact, high standards, and value delivery.
- Participate hands-on in technical architecture and design reviews.
- Define the team technology roadmap and collaborate with business teams and product managers on business OKR planning.
- Drive organizational growth, automated solutions, efficiency, and process improvement.
- Build and maintain scalable data connectors integrating external sources and internal products for the analytics ecosystem.
- Launch the Dashboards product and help build real-time analytics systems processing millions of rows with sub-2-second latency.

## Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software development and delivery, with in-depth knowledge of software architectures.
- At least 3 years of experience as an engineering manager leading development teams.
- Strong engineering skills and a record of improving code structure and architecture for testability and maintainability.
- Ability to set team and individual roadmaps and goals, delegate effectively, provide engineering guidance and transparent feedback, support career growth, and ensure quality results.
- Strong project management skills, product ownership, customer focus, and problem-solving abilities.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field, or equivalent relevant experience.

## Nice to Have
- Experience launching or managing analytics and data products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Rippling values an in-office collaborative work environment. For office-based employees within a defined radius of a Rippling office, current policy requires working in the office at least three days per week.

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