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Rippling is a unified HR, IT, and Finance platform that automates the entire employee lifecycle—from onboarding to benefits administration. The company has raised $1.85B+ from top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and Sequoia, and is headquartered in San Francisco.
The Benefits Marketplace team is building a transformative platform that consolidates benefits discovery, enrollment, administration, and carrier integrations into a single unified system. This team operates at the intersection of product engineering, distributed systems, marketplace infrastructure, and complex integrations, solving critical challenges around data consistency, scalability, reliability, and automation across the employee benefits lifecycle.
You will lead and scale a high-performing engineering team within Benefits Marketplace, combining deep technical leadership, product development, and people management. This is a high-ownership role where you'll drive the architecture and execution of critical systems, influence product direction, and shape the future of Rippling's Benefits platform.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, attracting, mentoring, and developing exceptional talent
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of critical Benefits Marketplace products and services
- Build scalable, reliable backend systems supporting benefits enrollment, eligibility, carrier integrations, and complex business workflows
- Drive architectural decisions involving distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, data consistency, and fault tolerance
- Partner with Product, Design, Platform, and senior engineering leaders to define roadmaps and translate business problems into scalable solutions
- Stay technically engaged through system design reviews, architectural discussions, critical code reviews, and production troubleshooting
- Lead end-to-end product development, balancing execution velocity, engineering quality, and long-term scalability
- Build a culture of strong ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
You'll work on complex engineering challenges involving distributed systems, carrier integrations, asynchronous workflows, and business-critical transactions. The role requires a strong product-building mindset, exceptional technical judgment, and a proven ability to develop engineers and deliver complex products at scale.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12–17 years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of engineering management experience
- Strong technical foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, system design, and scalable architecture
- Proven experience building and scaling complex, customer-facing products from conception to production
- Strong coding and architectural expertise in languages such as Java, Python, Go, C++, Scala, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing engineering teams, develop senior engineers, and maintain a high technical bar
- Strong product mindset with the ability to translate customer and business needs into technical strategy and execution
- Experience driving engineering roadmaps, setting priorities, managing dependencies, and delivering complex initiatives
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, make sound technical trade-offs, and influence decisions across teams
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across global engineering and product organizations
- Experience building marketplace platforms, enterprise SaaS, fintech, or integration-heavy products is a plus
