Manager, Software Engineering

Ripple•New York, NY

12d•$196,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. 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. We are seeking an innovative and forward-thinking Engineering Manager passionate about building a world-class platform through a world-class team. Driving the technical direction the technology, the evolution of team, and the engineering excellence to make magic happen. About the Liquidity Management Team The Liquidity Management team builds and maintains the core platform capabilities that give treasury professionals real-time visibility into their organization's cash and liquidity positions across banks, accounts, currencies, and legal entities worldwide. Our solutions help enterprise customers optimize how they fund operations, manage intercompany liquidity structures, and deploy idle cash. The team works at the intersection of complex financial workflows and modern software engineering, delivering scalable, reliable systems that process critical financial data for customers operating across 40+ countries. The Vision The Liquidity Management team is at the forefront of a major modernization initiative, reimagining how enterprise treasury teams manage liquidity across a global landscape. We're not just maintaining what exists — we're rebuilding from the ground up with a bold vision: a modern, intuitive user experience with fast, streamlined workflows that make complex treasury operations feel effortless; a cloud-native architecture built on the latest technologies, designed for scalability, resilience, and speed; and first-class support for both traditional fiat currencies and digital assets, positioning Ripple Treasury at the leading edge of where treasury is headed. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a platform that processes over $100 billion in daily cash flow for enterprise customers across 40+ countries. You'll be leading a team that's tackling genuinely hard problems — real-time visibility across banks, accounts, currencies, and legal entities; cash concentration and pooling strategies; intercompany lending workflows — all while making the transition from legacy systems to a modern, cloud-native stack. If you're energized by greenfield opportunities within a domain that actually matters, this is it.

Requirements

A leader, first and foremost
An influential and effective communicator
Highly skilled at developing people, building high impact teams, and attracting top talent
Strong proficiency with the software development lifecycle and engineering excellence processes, Agile methodologies, along with skills in leading moderately sized projects
Technical savvy, allowing you to guide complex technical discussions, weighing the tradeoffs, and advocate for sound decisions
A skilled operator of Agile practices and data driven methodologies

Nice To Haves

Ideally, possess deep knowledge and experience with Microsoft languages/frameworks (C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework)
Expertise with Azure (Function Apps, Service Bus, etc...) a bonus

Responsibilities

Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of software engineers with deep experience in event driven cloud native services, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet the needs of business and customers
Collaborate with product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions
Make decisions on the design, architecture, and delivery of systems
Build teams and be an active coach and mentor to your team and grow them in their careers
Drive agile development and analytical methodologies every day
Strive to continuously improve the operations, processes, methodologies, technology choices, and practices of the team
Interact with your team, customers, and peers to share information and improve cross-department processes
Strive for transparency and partnership between our engineers and our business partners
Engage in concept discussions, and proposed technology solutions, to meet business objectives and influence such decisions
Ensure all work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards needed for organizational success
Be a champion of the YBIYRI ethos (you-build-it-you-run-it), which includes participating in their on-call pager rotation.
Mentor engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles
Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team
Champion engineering best practices including observability, incident response, and production excellence
Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies
Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Collaborate across distributed teams (Ireland, U.S., Philippines, Australia) to drive alignment on technical approaches
Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities that create competitive advantages
Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value, helping the team prioritize high-impact work
Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle that slow down the entire team
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity
Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities
Own critical systems end-to-end, from design through production support
Take responsibility for production reliability and proactively prevent incidents
Step into ambiguous situations and drive them to resolution without needing explicit direction
Make tough technical trade-off decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning

Benefits

A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
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 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