Join Rippling as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Tax Platform team, the computational heart of our payroll system. This role is pivotal in ensuring accurate, compliant, and scalable tax calculations across numerous jurisdictions.

Rippling offers a comprehensive solution for HR, IT, and Finance, streamlining the employee lifecycle from hiring to management. Our innovative platform allows businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and IT infrastructure seamlessly.

This is a hands-on leadership position requiring deep technical engagement. You will drive the transformation of our tax engine towards greater stability, autonomy, and operational excellence, impacting millions of employees globally.

Take direct ownership of stabilizing the tax calculation engine and reducing operational burden. Identify and address root causes of system failures and manual workflows to achieve autonomous operation.

Own and enhance the core tax computation engine, ensuring sub-SLA latency and accuracy for federal, state, and local taxes across over 5,000 US tax codes.

Lead the development of AI-powered features for granular tax calculation explainability, providing clear insights into each dollar withheld.

Architect the tax computation pipeline for enterprise-scale performance, supporting companies with over 50,000 employees while maintaining strict SLAs.

Drive the global expansion of the tax engine by designing jurisdiction-agnostic frameworks and developing tooling for rapid onboarding of new countries and tax models.

We seek a Senior Engineering Manager with a strong blend of technical depth and execution capabilities. You must be adept at diving deep into complex systems, reading code, debugging, and reviewing architecture.

Proven experience in driving operational transformation for high-toil systems towards stability and autonomy is essential. A track record of identifying and rectifying systemic issues is required.

This role demands hands-on experience building scalable platform systems end-to-end, with ownership of both technical architecture and product outcomes.

Exceptional stakeholder collaboration skills are necessary to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including Payroll, Compliance, and Finance Engineering.

We require a minimum of 5 years in a managerial role, including 2+ years managing managers, preceded by 7–8 years as an individual contributor. Domain experience in payroll, tax, fintech, or high-correctness financial systems is highly preferred.

Excellent communication skills are crucial for working with distributed teams and non-engineering stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a total experience range of 12–17 years (IC + Managerial).