Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Identity Platform
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will build, hire, and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the Identity Platform, defining its culture, standards, and ways of working from day one. You will partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver capabilities that power customer onboarding and compliance workflows across the company's products. You will integrate with vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB while owning the orchestration, persistence, and service layers that connect them to core systems. You will lead the design and governance of a core identity data model, decoupled from legacy systems and built as a source-of-truth. You will build for global scale, enabling identity workflows that meet diverse regulatory requirements across multiple geographies, and you will define and implement a technical roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability while championing engineering excellence in design, testing, security, observability, and operations.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager (or equivalent) leading platform or identity-focused teams delivering complex, distributed systems
- Domain expertise in identity, KYC/KYB, regtech, or compliance-heavy platforms with hands-on delivery of critical identity capabilities
- Experience integrating major vendors into platform architectures while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance
- Strength in guiding teams through complex system migrations and legacy decoupling
- Skilled at aligning diverse team members across engineering, product, compliance, and legal into a coherent technical strategy
- Proven ability to deliver platforms with uncompromising reliability, auditability, and compliance in a regulated environment
- Experience building teams and capabilities that scale across multiple geographies and regulatory frameworks
Responsibilities
- Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the Identity Platform
- Define the team's culture, standards, and ways of working from day one
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver customer onboarding and compliance capabilities
- Integrate with vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB
- Own the orchestration, persistence, and service layers that connect vendors to core systems
- Lead the design and governance of a core identity data model decoupled from legacy systems
- Build identity workflows that meet diverse regulatory requirements across multiple geographies
- Define and implement a technical roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability
- Champion engineering excellence in design, testing, security, observability, and operational practices
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office days
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Healthcare covering physical and mental health
- Retirement benefits
- Family forming and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite & virtual wellness programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policy
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens with snacks and beverages