Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Payments Orchestration
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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About the Role
Lead the team responsible for crafting, delivering, and scaling Ripple's Payments Orchestration layer while ensuring secure, compliant, reliable, and globally scalable customer experiences.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Manager leading high-performing teams delivering scalable distributed systems.
- Experience using Generative AI or Agentic workflows to accelerate development, automation, or innovation.
- Experience managing engineering teams of 10 or more engineers.
- Hands-on experience building distributed systems and microservice architectures.
- Strength guiding teams through system migrations and legacy decoupling.
- Ability to align engineering, product, compliance, and legal stakeholders around technical strategy.
- Experience delivering reliable, auditable, compliant platforms in regulated environments.
- Experience scaling teams and capabilities across regions and regulatory frameworks.
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to improve and scale complex systems.
- Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility.
- Preferred: understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture, and AWS.
Responsibilities
- Develop, hire, and lead a high-performing Payments Orchestration engineering team.
- Partner with Product, Operations, Services, Compliance, and engineering teams to deliver payment-processing capabilities.
- Build payment orchestration systems for global scale and diverse regulatory requirements.
- Define and implement a technical roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability.
- Champion engineering excellence in design, testing, security, observability, and operations.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexibility to choose which 10+ days per month to work from the office
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings with leadership Q&A
- Team offsites, bonding activities, happy hours, and other events
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family-planning benefits
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens