Senior Engineering Manager

At Rippling the Accounting Platform team sits at the critical intersection of product innovation and financial infrastructure. Our mission is to empower finance teams to move from traditional month-end closes to real-time accounting by seamlessly connecting Ripplings platform with the worlds most widely-used ERP systems including NetSuite QuickBooks Microsoft Dynamics 365 Oracle and more.

We build robust bi-directional integrations that serve both Ripplings internal products (like Payroll Spend Management Procurement and Travel) and external ERPs used by our customers. These integrations power complex accounting workflows such as journal syncing reconciliation audit readiness and more enabling our customers to automate the most repetitive and error-prone financial operations.

As Rippling expands globally and moves upmarket to serve large enterprises the Accounting Platform team is at the forefront of unlocking key use cases and supporting new geographies integrations and accounting standards. This team also operates in a high-velocity continuous delivery environment tackling a wide surface area of capabilities systems and support scenarios.

If you want to build an org that makes accounts close reliable at scale through managers staffing and clear ownershipthis is the team for you.

Rippling is building the future of accounting and were looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to help make that vision a reality.

In this high-impact role youll be at the center of transforming Ripplings global accounting system leveraging AI-driven solutions and modern engineering practices to unify and scale accounting operations across multiple countries.

This is a rare opportunity to own the charter and design of one of Ripplings core product pillars from the ground up. Youll lead initiatives that span the entire development lifecycle from defining and scoping new product functionality to deploying critical systems for scale accuracy and performance. We need a leader who will go deep get their hands dirty and drive the technical and operational transformation from the front.

Were looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who combines technical depth with strong execution instincts. This role requires someone who can earn the trust of a senior engineering team by understanding the system as well as they do and then leading it to a better place.

• Technical Depth: Must be comfortable going deep into complex systems reading code debugging production issues reviewing architecture and identifying root causes. Hands-on instinct is essential at this stage of the teams journey.
• Operational Transformation: Experience taking a high-toil operationally demanding system and driving it toward stability and autonomy. Track record of identifying systemic issues and fixing them not just managing around them.
• Product & Platform Experience: Hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end. Comfortable owning both technical architecture and product outcomes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams Payroll Compliance Spend Engineering and global stakeholders.
• Execution-Driven: Clear track record of setting roadmaps defining milestones and shipping in high-ambiguity environments.
• People Leadership: Minimum 5 years in a managerial role including 2 years managing managers with 78 years as an IC prior.
• Domain Affinity: Experience in accounting payroll fintech or high-correctness financial systems is strongly preferred.
• Communication: Clear and effective communication especially across distributed teams and with non-engineering stakeholders.
• Experience Range: Total 1215 years (IC Managerial).