About RipplingRippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365-all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world's top investors-including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock-and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About the roleRippling is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Global Expansion Capabilities team - a foundational group powering Rippling's international products. This team owns the Employer of Record (EOR) platform and the emerging Standard Global Payroll (GP) product, enabling companies to hire and pay employees across dozens of countries without setting up local legal entities.
This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of fintech, global compliance, and distributed systems. You will step in following a leadership transition to provide strategic technical direction for a fast-growing, revenue-critical business line, while helping take a new payroll product from early launch into scaled global availability. Your work will directly shape how Rippling expands into new markets and supports customers operating internationally.
What you will do- Lead a senior, high-performing team: Manage and mentor a San Francisco-based team of senior and staff engineers, while partnering closely with an India-based expansion team responsible for repeatable country launches.
- Own core global expansion platforms: Drive strategy and execution for Rippling's EOR platform, including third-party payroll integrations, entity management, global billing, and risk-based collateral calculation and collection systems.
- Launch and scale new products: Lead the evolution of Standard Global Payroll from early rollout to broader international expansion, setting the technical foundation for repeatable country launches.
- Architect for reliability and scale: Improve and modernize legacy third-party integration patterns to increase correctness, resiliency, and auditability across complex, multi-jurisdictional environments.
- Translate regulation into software: Partner deeply with Product, Legal, Tax Ops, Finance, and Regulatory teams to convert evolving international labor laws and tax requirements into clear technical roadmaps.
- Set technical direction: Establish architectural standards that reduce rework, prevent technical debt, and support reliable, global payroll and employment workflows.
- Grow the organization: Support thoughtful team growth over time as global payroll adoption expands, while maintaining a high bar for technical excellence and ownership.
What you will need- Engineering leadership experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management role leading backend-heavy teams through both early-stage and scaled systems.
- Strong backend and systems background: Deep experience with distributed systems, complex data modeling, and business-critical workflows; fintech, payroll, or compliance-driven domains are highly preferred.
- Product and business ownership: A track record of owning a product or platform end-to-end, with accountability for reliability, scalability, and customer impact.
- Cross-functional fluency: Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical stakeholders (e.g., Legal, Tax, Finance) and translate ambiguous regulatory requirements into executable engineering plans.
- Operational rigor: Experience managing third-party integrations at scale and maintaining high reliability in mission-critical environments.
- Hands-on technical credibility: Sufficient technical depth to engage meaningfully in architecture and design discussions with senior engineers.
- People leadership: Proven success managing senior engineers and collaborating effectively with globally distributed teams.
Additional InformationRippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation-including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
The pay range for this role is:
198,000 - 346,500 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)
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