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 $1.2B 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 Role

The Object Platform at Rippling is the core bet of our platform strategy. There are early signals making us confident in our approach. We set out in accomplishing three key goals:

• ZObjects: A world class object store which brings the world of hybrid transactional and analytical (HTAP) capabilities to our customers and developers
• Custom Apps: This object model can power non technical customers to build, model and automate their necessary business processes via a custom application builder providing what you see is what you get.
• Application Platform: The same capabilities supercharge a world class application development platform for both first and third party developers

This senior engineering management role will oversee all three areas of this charter.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of passionate software engineers that pride themselves on ownership and impact
• Setup vision and technical strategy to drive impactful business outcomes
• Ensure the successful adoption of the platform by the engineering teams building our next generation of products and cloud offerings
• Set up and maintain engineering processes that empower the team to move quickly
• Develop a culture of engineering excellence and operational efficiency
• Grow, educate, and retain a successful team with a high delivery cadence in an agile environment
• Ensure your team ships products consistently at high quality and velocity
• Be hands-on in technical architecture and reviews, provide technical leadership to the engineers, and be accountable for the technical decisions made on the team
• Partner closely with engineers, product, design, and cross-functional leaders to help shape, sequence, and lead the team’s engineering work
• Have a holistic view across engineering & product and drive strategy
• Wear a product manager hat when needed

Qualifications

• A minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, delivering impactful products
• A minimum 4 years of experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with building distributed systems, APIs, and working knowledge of AWS & cloud-based SaaS applications
• Effectiveness at leading and executing large & complex technical initiatives
• Experience in taking an idea and turning them into impactful products
• Experience working in a fast-paced & dynamic environment 
• Proficiency in recruiting, organizing, and motivating teams
• Strong product intuition and experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams

Additional Information:

Rippling 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 accomodations@rippling.com.

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 40 mile 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.