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 $1.4B 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

You’ll be part of the Travel team, helping to define the future of corporate travel through the Rippling Platform’s integrated solutions. As part of Rippling’s Spend Suite—which also includes corporate cards, expense management, procurement, and bill pay—the Travel team is integral to our all-in-one solution for managing corporate spending.

Our customers value the seamless integration of corporate cards, expense management, and accounting automation, with travel management as the next frontier. Our mission is to build the best travel management platform for employees, finance teams, and travel managers alike. Currently in its alpha phase, the travel product is set to launch in 2025.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Travel, you’ll lead a high-performing team dedicated to enhancing our product offerings while ensuring exceptional availability, scalability, and low latency. Your work will directly impact revenue, improve the customer experience, drive advancements in cross-team initiatives, and uphold the highest technical standards within your team.

What you will do

• Lead a team of passionate software engineers that prides itself on ownership and impact
• Drive on-time, high quality product delivery and adoption of engineering best practices
• Help the organization scale and grow with the business - attract and grow the best talent!
• Empower engineers to take ownership of projects, guiding them from initial product requirements through to launch, with an eye delivering the best experience for our Travel customers
• Maintain a relentless commitment to elevating engineering standards within both the team and the organization as a whole
• Provide mentorship and opportunities for your team of engineers, nurturing their professional growth and success
• Identify inefficiencies within the team and drive process and system enhancements that will support scaling the team
• Learn everything about the fascinating world of travel

What you will need

• Possess 3+ years of professional people management experience, including managing 10+ engineers or ideally manager(s) of managers.
• Demonstrated track record of 7+ years of professional experience utilizing a modern backend programming language (i.e. Python, Java, Kotlin, C++) for APIs, batch jobs, etc.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, providing you with a solid foundation to help mentor engineers to tackle complex technical problems and drive innovation.
• Previous experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas into successful launches.
• Demonstrate a keen product sense that advocates for delivering exceptional customer experiences

Preferred Skills

• • 2+ years of professional experience with Temporal and MongoDB
  • Experience with a frontend language/framework (i.e. React, Ruby/Rails)

About the team

We’re on a mission to redefine the travel experience. Our team owns the end-to-end product experience for all things travel—hotels, flights, cars, and beyond. We’re committed to delivering the most seamless and intuitive travel search and booking experience, leveraging the power of Rippling’s Spend platform to automate time-consuming tasks for finance teams, managers, and employees alike. With our unique position within the organization, the Travel team plays a pivotal role in driving ARR and shaping the future of corporate travel solutions.

If you’re passionate about building impactful products and love solving complex problems, we’d love to have you on board! Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. Skills can be used in lots of different ways and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture.

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.