Manager, Software Engineering

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs. 

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

Ripple is growing rapidly, and we are looking for an engineering leader to help build the next generation of payment platform that enables banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to build the Internet of Value. Ripple’s distributed financial technology outperforms today’s banking infrastructure by driving down costs, growing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end insight into payment fees, timing and delivery!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Drive the roadmap and priorities and work with dependencies across the company to build a shared vision
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability
• Lead and build processes to enable the team to do its most efficient and best work
• Recruit outstanding engineers, in collaboration with Ripple’s recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them grow and advance in their careers

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 8+ years of Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, and 3+ years leading impactful engineering teams
• Developed teams that shipped and operated critical microservices as you will have significant responsibility over the fundamental building blocks of Ripple's payment platform
• Intellectual curiosity - you love to dig into how things work and understand how to improve and scale them
• You are still technically update to date and love to spend of your time discussing architecture / design trade-offs & directions
• You have the proven ability to leverage Generative AI to accelerate development, automation, or product innovation
• You thrive with autonomy and responsibility
• (Preferred) Good understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture, integrating into internal and third party services

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.  A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in. 
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.