Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

About the role

Ripple is growing rapidly. We are looking for a focused Software Engineering Manager to lead the Product Ledger team. This team builds the double-entry ledger service powering accounting and financial state across Ripple Products. You'll partner closely with Accounting, Product, and Compliance to build a correctness-critical system that scales across new business lines while remaining audit-ready and Oracle-integrated.

Responsibilities

• Think strategically while balancing both short and long-term needs
• Build and lead hard-working engineering teams by motivating your team and leading by example to continuously innovate, improve, and think differently
• Deliver outstanding results for our customers and serve as a role model for other engineers
• Create a shared vision and build and maintain strong partnerships with Product Management, Ops, Security, Research, Customer Success, and Business Development teams
• Own the entire software development process for your team’s work
• Own and deliver your roadmap

Requirements

• 5+ years leading impactful engineering teams, having led teams of 8+
• Hands-on experience in Java (Spring) and comfort reviewing/contributing to backend service code
• Direct experience building or operating a double-entry ledger or core accounting/financial system — journals, debits/credits, chart of accounts, balance derivation, reversals
• Track record with correctness-critical, high-throughput transactional systems: idempotency design, concurrency control (optimistic locking / conditional writes), and balance-integrity guarantees under concurrent writes
• Experience partnering closely with team members — revenue recognition, intercompany accounting, GL mapping, reconciliation, and ERP integration (e.g., Oracle)
• Strong grasp of databases at scale and familiarity with NoSQL data modeling (e.g., DynamoDB) for future migration paths
• Experience designing event-driven systems that translate business events into balanced, auditable postings, with simulation/dry-run tooling for onboarding new event types
• Comfort operating in a regulated, audit-sensitive environment — immutable/append-only records, traceability requirements, safeguarding or similar compliance obligations
• Proven track record of defining and owning a technical roadmap across multiple product verticals, including onboarding additional service areas onto a shared platform
• Bias toward action, sound judgment under ambiguity, and success recruiting and growing strong engineers

• Bonus: familiarity with crypto custody and multi-network asset movement (wallets, blockchain networks, exchanges) given the ledger's (asset, network) balancing model

Pay

For positions that will be based in NY, the annual salary range for this position is $200,000 USD - $245,000 USD. 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.

Benefits

• 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
• R&R days to 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 and family planning benefits
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
• 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, plus a professional development budget to support other modes of learning
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter (teams decide which 10+ days a month they come in)
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting — business updates and ask-me-anything style discussion with Leadership Team
• Team offsites, bonding activities, happy hours, and more