Senior Engineering Manager - Payroll
Rippling · Bengaluru · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2025-11-10
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About the role
This is a high-impact role focused on platformizing one of the most critical components of Payroll—managing the payroll input and output flows that directly affect accurate, timely payroll processing for millions of employees globally. About the Team: You’ll join a dynamic and growing team responsible for the end-to-end product, system, and operational management of all incoming and outgoing payroll integrations—covering HRIS, Benefits, Time on the incoming side, and Accounting, Reports on the outgoing side. The team is evolving the integration platform with API and SDK support, leveraging trigger-action-based, sync/async mechanisms to build scalable, reusable, and observable solutions. What you will do Lead a team of passionate Senior and Staff engineers that prides itself on ownership and impact Be hands-on in technical architecture/reviews, and if/as needed, make contributions to code Drive on-time, high-quality product delivery. Drive adoption of engineering best practices Work with Product Managers to have a holistic view across engineering and product, and drive engineering and product strategy (wear a product manager hat when needed) Help the organization scale and grow with the business - attract and groom the best talent! Drive better efficiency and process improvement for various aspects of the team’s / product’s operations Own the outcome and success of critical product line(s) at Rippling. What you will need Outstanding customer-centric mindset, growth mindset, and a hunger for impact Strong coding, design, and architectural skills - be a technical leader for the team Demonstrated experience in customer-focused product leadership with a platform-centric approach. Strong background in data infrastructure, data engineering, and building scalable data pipelines. Proven ability to design and manage interoperable systems at scale. Experience owning end-to-end product lifecycle, including platform architecture, user experience, and operational support. Ability to collaborate effectively with global cross-functional teams and external vendors to deliver seamless payroll integrations. 12+ years of professional work experience in software development
Qualifications
- Outstanding customer-centric mindset, growth mindset, and a hunger for impact
- Strong coding, design, and architectural skills - be a technical leader for the team
- Demonstrated experience in customer-focused product leadership with a platform-centric approach.
- Strong background in data infrastructure, data engineering, and building scalable data pipelines.
- Proven ability to design and manage interoperable systems at scale.
- Experience owning end-to-end product lifecycle, including platform architecture, user experience, and operational support.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with global cross-functional teams and external vendors to deliver seamless payroll integrations.
- 12+ years of professional work experience in software development
Responsibilities
- You’ll join a dynamic and growing team responsible for the end-to-end product, system, and operational management of all incoming and outgoing payroll integrations—covering HRIS, Benefits, Time on the incoming side, and Accounting, Reports on the outgoing side.
- The team is evolving the integration platform with API and SDK support, leveraging trigger-action-based, sync/async mechanisms to build scalable, reusable, and observable solutions.
- What you will do
- Lead a team of passionate Senior and Staff engineers that prides itself on ownership and impact Be hands-on in technical architecture/reviews, and if/as needed, make contributions to code
- Drive on-time, high-quality product delivery.
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices
- Work with Product Managers to have a holistic view across engineering and product, and drive engineering and product strategy (wear a product manager hat when needed) Help the organization scale and grow with the business - attract and groom the best talent!
- Drive better efficiency and process improvement for various aspects of the team’s / product’s operations
- Own the outcome and success of critical product line(s) at Rippling.