Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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 provide technical and strategic leadership for RippleX's blockchain software, ensuring it remains scalable and reliable. You will develop and deliver roadmaps that drive technical and operational excellence, and mentor team members to support their professional and technical growth while offering hands-on leadership. You will establish engineering standard processes and collaborate with partners across Ripple and the wider XRPL community. You will implement agile processes to support innovation and incremental objectives, and translate technical concepts for a range of audiences including engineers, business leaders and technical leaders. You will scale the team by attracting and mentoring leaders and engineers at varying experience levels, and work closely with Ripple's recruiting team to bring on outstanding engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development leadership experience, leading strong engineering teams
- Both a people leader and a technical leader
- Proficient in building highly scalable and reliable distributed systems in C++
- Experienced in developing open-source software and contributing to collaborative blockchain communities
- Collaborative approach with eagerness to share knowledge and work openly with diverse teams
- Technical domain expert providing leadership and expertise to growing engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and strategic leadership for RippleX's blockchain software, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Develop and deliver roadmaps, driving technical and operational excellence
- Mentor team members for professional and technical growth, while providing hands-on leadership
- Establish and encourage engineering standard processes, collaborating with partners across Ripple and in the XRPL community
- Implement agile processes for innovation and incremental objectives
- Translate technical concepts for various audiences including engineers, business and technical leaders
- Scale the team by attracting and mentoring leaders and engineers of varying experience levels
- Recruit outstanding engineers, in collaboration with Ripple's recruiting team
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration days
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- 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
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages