Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Payments Orchestration
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 lead the team responsible for crafting, delivering, and scaling the Payments Orchestration layer, ensuring Ripple's payments products move with speed and integrity while meeting the strict demands of a regulated global business. You'll manage a critical, large, and high-performing engineering team and own the strategic evolution of the Payments Orchestration vision, delivering core capabilities that keep customer experiences secure, compliant, and globally scalable. You'll partner closely with Product, Operations, Services, Compliance, and other engineering teams, define a technical roadmap, and champion engineering excellence across design, testing, security, observability, and operations.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager leading high performing engineering teams delivering sophisticated, highly reliable and scalable distributed systems
- Demonstrated success in employing Generative AI or Agentic workflows to accelerate development, automation, or product innovation
- Have managed engineering teams of 10+ engineers
- Hands-on experience building distributed systems and micro-service architecture
- Strength in guiding teams through sophisticated system migrations and legacy decoupling
- Skilled at aligning diverse partners across engineering, product, compliance, and legal into a coherent technical strategy
- Proven track record to deliver platforms with principled reliability, auditability, and compliance in a regulated environment
- Experience building teams and capabilities that scale across diverse regions and regulatory frameworks
- Intellectual curiosity to dig into how things work and understand how to improve and scale them
- Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility
- Good understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture and AWS (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Develop, hire and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to Payments Orchestration, defining its culture, standards, and ways of working
- Partner with Product, Operations, Services, Compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver capabilities that power customer facing APIs from the payment processing framework
- Build for global scale by enabling payments orchestration that meets diverse regulatory requirements and operational needs 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
- Flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month to come into the office
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with leadership Q&A
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and other events
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages