Senior Engineering Manager, Travel
- Location
- New York, NY · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Listed
- Today
Skills & highlights for this role
- Engineering leadership
- Leading experienced backend or full-stack engineers
- High-scale distributed systems or financial applications
- Architecture and technical roadmap driving
- Product and execution ownership
Also useful
- Travel provider integrations
- NDC
- Ground transport integrations
- Corporate policy engines
- High-throughput travel orchestration systems
- AI-assisted experience development
About the role
We're seeking a high-impact Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Travel organization, spanning Travel Experience and Travel Integrations. This role reports to the Director of Engineering and will serve as a New York City site lead for the team. Together, Travel Experience and Travel Integrations own the end-to-end journey: booking orchestration, emerging AI-driven automation, flagship mobile and web experiences, and the provider integrations that broaden the travel options available to customers.
You will lead and grow a senior-heavy engineering team across the U.S., Europe, and India. You will set a clear technical direction and operating rhythm across those locations while strengthening the team's engineering presence in New York.
You will help scale Travel into a seamless global platform. We're looking for a technically sharp, execution-focused leader with deep ownership of product impact, system reliability, and the growth of experienced engineers.
What you will do
- Own Travel Experience - Lead booking workflows across flights, hotels, and cars, including the evolution toward AI-assisted experiences.
- Expand Travel Integrations - Expand travel supply through new provider partnerships and integrations, adding rail and buses while deepening partnerships across flights, stays, and car rentals.
- Drive International Expansion - Scale the Travel platform for customers in the U.S. and other international markets, balancing local needs with a coherent global experience.
- Lead a Senior, Distributed Team - Coach Staff and Senior Engineers, delegate meaningful technical ownership, and establish effective collaboration across New York, Europe, and India.
- Serve as NYC Site Lead - Help set the engineering bar in New York through mentorship, hiring, and close partnership with local and global leaders.
- Partner to Complete the Suite - Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to navigate ambiguity and integrate Travel with the broader Spend ecosystem.
What you will need
- Proven Engineering Leadership - A track record of leading experienced backend or full-stack engineers, developing senior technical leaders, and delivering through teams spread across locations.
- Strong Technical Judgment - Depth in high-scale distributed systems or financial applications, and the ability to drive architecture and the technical roadmap alongside Staff-level engineers.
- Product and Execution Ownership - Sound judgment in balancing customer experience, delivery speed, and system reliability in a fast-moving environment.
- Domain Expertise - Familiarity with travel provider integrations, supply partnerships, NDC, ground transport, corporate policy engines, or high-throughput travel orchestration systems is strongly preferred.
Location: New York City. Ability to work in the office at least three days a week under current policy.
Additional Information
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 defined 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.
Pay and benefits
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.
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.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
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
From Rippling's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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