Director Of Engineering

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.

• →Build the Bangalore hub: Hire, level, and grow a 25+ person org; stand up rituals, on-call, quality bars, and velocity tracking.
• →Own Accounting Integrations end-to-end: Define the technical roadmap and delivery plan for an integrations platform that serves both Spend and Payroll; ship the next set of GA integrations.
• →Raise the execution bar: Diagnose churn early, clarify requirements, and drive PR/Design quality; get teams shipping the right thing, fast.
• →Manage managers + ICs: Mentor junior EMs; directly manage ICs initially and transition scope as leaders ramp.
• →Operational excellence: Build support and observability for integrations (routing, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, data quality, SLAs).
• →Partner deeply: Work with Product, Design, GTM, and Finance Ops to prioritize impact, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly.
• →Scale through platforms: Establish reusable contracts, SDKs, tooling, and CI/CD standards so new integrations land in weeks—not quarters.
• →Be the site leader: Set crisp goals, run calibration, address underperformance fast, and model hands-on, detail-oriented leadership.

• 5+ years in engineering leadership, including 2+ years managing managers or large multi-team groups
• Proven 0 to 1 and scale experience: shipped platforms or integrations with high reliability and throughput
• You like being technical. Strong technical depth in distributed systems, APIs/webhooks, and data modeling. Comfortable reviewing designs and PRs
• Operational mindset: built systems with monitoring, alerting, rate limits, retries, reconciliation, and clear SLOs/SLAs
• People leader: hires great talent, levels accurately, runs calibrations, manages performance with candor and speed
• Product sense: You can turn ambiguous requirements into shipped outcomes while balancing speed with quality
• Nice to have: prior work with accounting/ERP systems, travel content providers, or financial data flows