Vice President of Engineering, Fiat Infrastructure
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 own the engineering platform that moves money across fiat rails on behalf of every Ripple product, reporting to the SVP of Engineering. You'll take a foundational execution domain that touches every cross-border payment, stablecoin issuance, OTC trade, and custody flow, and turn Ripple's existing position — money transmitter licenses across dozens of jurisdictions and direct integrations with banks and payout partners — into a unified platform shared across every Ripple product. You'll define clean, reusable interfaces for other product teams, maintain real-time operational visibility, build an AI-native engineering organization, and play an active role in expanding the fiat network through banking partnerships, licensing, and potential acquisitions.
Requirements
- Deep experience operating fiat payment infrastructure across multiple corridors and jurisdictions
- Strong understanding of payment rail mechanics such as ACH, SWIFT, Faster Payments, SEPA and regional equivalents
- Experience operating live financial networks with instincts around partner quality and network expansion
- Proven experience building unified, shared core infrastructure platforms used across multiple internal engineering teams
- Strong architectural judgment around extracting reusable platform layers from complex systems
- Operator mindset comfortable staying close to production and diagnosing system-level constraints
- Genuine interest in the business of financial networks including banking relationships and licensing strategy
- Ability to engage credibly with banking partners, regulators, and commercial counterparties
- Track record of building trust across engineering, product, operations, and external counterparties
Responsibilities
- Own the full fiat infrastructure domain across control plane, execution plane, and network layer
- Define clean, reusable interfaces every product team builds against
- Maintain real-time corridor health, prefunding visibility, and proactive issue detection
- Build the engineering organization as an AI-native operation using agentic development practices
- Expand Ripple's fiat network by structuring banking partnerships and deploying the licensing portfolio into new markets
- Evaluate whether acquisitions can accelerate corridor or network coverage
- Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Business Development on global licensing strategies and banking partnerships
- Partner across Payments, Custody, Stablecoin, and Markets as a shared platform owner
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Relocation assistance
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Health, retirement, family forming, and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens with snacks and beverages