Senior Engineering Manager, Payroll Payments

rippling

San Francisco, CA, United States
On-site
Engineering leadership managing 10+ engineers
High-scale distributed systems
Payment systems reliability and correctness
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance by unifying workforce systems like payroll, expenses, and benefits into a single platform

Job Summary

  • Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance by unifying workforce systems like payroll, expenses, and benefits into a single platform.
  • The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a multi-layered team responsible for building systems that generate and manage payment instructions for hundreds of thousands of employees with volume exceeding 500K instructions per day.
  • This role offers the opportunity to shape the strategy, organization, and product direction for Payroll Payments, including innovation in contractor wallets and flexible payout methods.

Matching Summary

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance by unifying workforce systems like payroll, expenses, and benefits into a single platform.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • engineering leadership managing 10+ engineers
  • high-scale distributed systems
  • payment systems reliability and correctness
  • cross-functional collaboration with product and design
  • global distributed team management
  • building payroll and payment instruction systems

Nice-to-have

  • strong product sense balancing tech and UX
  • experience in fintech or payroll domains
  • operational rigor in financial systems
  • driving innovation in contractor payments
  • working across time zones
  • influencing senior stakeholders

Key Requirements

  • Experience managing managers and 10+ engineers
  • Background in high-scale distributed systems
  • Strong operational rigor in financial or transactional systems
  • Cross-functional leadership experience
  • Comfortable leading distributed global teams

Work Rights

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