Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Payments Orchestration

Ripple; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Health benefits

Mobile phone stipend

Generous vacation policy

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to building a next-generation payment platform. The role requires managing a critical team to ensure efficient and compliant payment processes, fostering collaboration across various departments.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in distributed systems, technical strategy, and engineering excellence. Additional benefits include competitive salary and comprehensive healthcare coverage.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience building distributed systems and micro-service architectures.
• Strong ability to guide teams through system migrations and legacy decoupling.

Responsibilities

• Develop, hire and lead a high-performing engineering team.
• Partner with various teams to deliver customer-facing APIs.
• Define and implement a technical roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed Systems

Micro-service Architecture

Technical Strategy

Engineering Excellence

Tools

Java Spring

AWS

Job description

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.

Ripple is growing rapidly, and we are looking for an engineering leader to help build the next generation of payment platform that enables financial institutes 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!

In the role of Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for crafting, delivering, and scaling the Payments Orchestration layer. Your leadership will be crucial in ensuring our Payments products can move with speed and integrity while meeting the strict demands of a regulated global business.

This is a high-leverage opportunity where you will manage a critical, large, and high-performing team. You will own the strategic evolution of the Payments Orchestration vision and deliver core capabilities that ensure Ripple’s customer experiences are secure, compliant, and globally scalable.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, hire and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the 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 — enabling payments orchestration 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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 - you love to dig into how things work and understand how to improve and scale them
• You thrive with autonomy and responsibility
• (Preferred) Good understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture and AWS

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.

CA Annual Base Salary Range

$232,000 — $290,000 USD

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.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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