Senior Engineering Manager — Identity Platform

Hidden Road; United States; Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary, bonuses, and 'equ

Benefits covering health, retirement,

Employee giving match

Mobile phone stipend

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead the Identity Platform team that supports onboarding, compliance, and identity workflows across Ripple products. You will own a core data model and orchestrate vendor integrations to ensure secure, compliant, scalable customer experiences.

You’ll guide cross-functional partners, drive architectural durability, and champion engineering excellence in security and observability while scaling teams across geographies and regulatory

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager leading platform or identity-focused teams.
• Domain expertise in identity, KYC/KYB, regtech, or compliance-heavy platforms.
• Experience integrating major vendors into platform architectures while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance.
• Experience guiding teams through complex system migrations and legacy decoupling.
• Strong ability to align engineering, product, compliance, and legal into a coherent technical strategy.
• Proven ability to deliver platforms with reliability, auditability, and compliance in regulated environments.
• Experience building teams across multiple geographies and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the Identity Platform — defining its culture, standards, and ways of working from day one.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver capabilities that power customer onboarding and compliance workflows across Ripple’s products.
• Integrate with world‑class vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB, while owning the orchestration, persistence, and service layers that connect them to Ripple’s core systems.
• Lead the design and governance of a core identity data model, decoupled from legacy systems and built as a source‑of‑truth across Ripple.
• Build for global scale — enabling identity workflows that meet 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.

Skills

Senior Engineering Manager

Platform architecture

Identity systems

KYC/KYB domain

Vendor integration

Cross-functional leadership

Global scalability

Job description

Ripple is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead the Identity Platform team that supports onboarding, compliance, and identity workflows across Ripple products. You will own a core data model and orchestrate vendor integrations to ensure secure, compliant, scalable customer experiences.

You’ll guide cross-functional partners, drive architectural durability, and champion engineering excellence in security and observability while scaling teams across geographies and regulatory