Senior Engineering Manager - Payments Execution

Senior Engineering Manager - Payments Execution Senior Engineering Manager - Payments Execution 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. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.

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the role Rippling is seeking a high-impact Engineering Manager (M8) to lead execution for our newly formed Money Movement & Treasury organization. While our Seattle hub focuses on next-generation ledger architecture, this team owns the reliability, scalability, and platformization of our orchestration and payment methods systems. This is a critical role focused on building and operating the execution layer that powers global money movement. You will lead a foundational team of 6 engineers, with a clear mandate to scale both

the team and the systems into a core pillar of Rippling’s financial infrastructure. We’re looking for a hands-on, execution-focused leader who prioritizes system stability, operational rigor, and high-quality delivery in a fast-moving environment. What you will do Own the Execution Layer - Lead and scale a team focused on orchestration platformization and standardizing payment method components across geographies. Drive System Reliability - Own uptime and resilience for critical money movement systems, including self-healing orchestration, robust alerting, and graceful degradation across global payment flows. Set Technical and Product Priorities - Partner closely with Product to manage the roadmap, making clear tradeoffs between reliability, scalability, and feature development. Build Operational Excellence - Establish strong engineering fundamentals, including SLAs, runbooks, incident management, and on-call health, to support systems processing ~$100B in annual volume. Scale