Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Payments Orchestration

About the role

Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today. This role involves leading a team to build the next generation of payment platform that enables financial institutions to instantly settle cross-border payments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, hire, and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the Payments Orchestration
• 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

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Good understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture and AWS (preferred)

Skills

• Strong leadership and management skills
• Experience with Generative AI or Agentic workflows
• Experience managing engineering teams of 10+ engineers
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and micro-service architecture
• Experience guiding teams through system migrations and legacy decoupling
• Experience delivering platforms with reliability, auditability, and compliance in a regulated environment
• Experience building scalable teams and capabilities across diverse regions and regulatory frameworks

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

Pay

• Competitive compensation package

Schedule

• Full-time position