About Rippling

Rippling 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 $1.8B+ 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 Team

Financial Integrity team at Rippling is on a mission to safeguard the integrity of every financial transaction across Rippling products. We operate at the intersection of finance and engineering, ensuring that all money movements across Rippling are accurate, compliant and reliable.

The team is structured into four key focus areas:

• Financial Crime Compliance - Ensure all Rippling financial products meet regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, maintaining strict adherence to government regulations.
• Credit Risk - Actively identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to fraud activities, credit exposure and financial anomalies across critical products like Payroll , EOR, COR and Spend, etc.
• KYC & Onboarding - Deliver a secure and seamless onboarding experience through strong KYC (Know Your Customer/Business) compliance and automation, ensuring only verified and trustworthy entities enter our ecosystem.
• Financial Integration Platform - Build and scale a robust integration platform that connects financial systems, internal products and external partners, enabling secure data exchange, streamlined operations and faster product expansion.

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity for an exceptional engineering leader to build, scale and lead a high-performing team at the heart of Finance, Risk, Compliance and KYC. You will set the technical vision, drive execution and take ownership of mission-critical systems that demand uncompromising reliability, scalability and accuracy. Beyond delivering features, you will shape strategy, develop strong engineers, influence product direction and solve complex problems with measurable business impact. 

About the Role

Join Rippling as the Engineering Manager for the Financial Integrity team and shape the future of our financial platform architecture. In this high-visibility, high-impact leadership role, you will bring a founder’s mindset to build and scale a world-class engineering team responsible for the mission-critical systems that power Rippling’s growth.

You will operate at the intersection of complex distributed systems and core financial strategy—balancing big-picture vision with hands-on execution. If you thrive on deep ownership, technical rigor, and developing high-performing engineers, this is your opportunity to define the foundation of financial integrity at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead & Empower: Build, mentor, and inspire a team of passionate engineers known for taking ownership and driving end-to-end impact.
• Architect & Execute: Stay hands-on with technical design, code reviews, and system architecture to ensure the delivery of resilient, complex distributed systems.
• Act Like an Owner: Bring a founder’s mindset to challenge conventional approaches, identify growth opportunities, and define the technical roadmap across Risk and Compliance in close partnership with Product and Business leadership.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Enforce engineering best practices, foster a high-performance culture of accountability, and champion automated solutions that boost operational efficiency.
• Scale for Growth: Build scalable systems and team structures that enable the organization to grow smoothly alongside expanding business demands.
  
  

What you will need

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who has a strong technical-foundation, thrives in high-ownership environments and . Key expectations from the role include:

• Technical Foundation: Candidate should have deep technical hands-on experience and sound understanding of tech and be able to guide and review effectively.
• Team development skills: Ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, offer engineering advice, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers and ensure everyone delivers quality results
• Product Development Experience: Hands-on experience building scalable products end-to-end. Should have been closely involved in defining and delivering both small and large-scale projects.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, both within India and globally. Strong collaboration and coordination skills are essential.
• Execution-Driven: Should be execution-oriented with a clear understanding of how to set up roadmaps, define milestones, and drive outcomes.
• Experience Range: Minimum of 2-3 years in a managerial role and prior experience of 7-8 years as an Individual Contributor. Must have experience leading engineering teams and mentoring engineering with total experience of 8–12 years.