Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Ripple

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><h2>The Position:</h2> <p>The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pioneer and scale Ripple Treasury's liquidity platform into the future. If you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment this might be the right role for you!</p> <p>At Ripple, you’ll be a part of makers, breakers, doers, and progressives, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. As an established FinTech leader in the SaaS treasury management space, our vision is to create the next-generation of technology tools for the global, corporate financial office.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>About the Cash Forecasting team:</strong></h2> <p><strong>Cash Forecasting</strong> is our AI-amplified treasury solution that helps CFOs and treasury teams move beyond error-prone spreadsheets to achieve real-time cash visibility and predictive accuracy.</p> <p>The platform integrates seamlessly with major ERPs and banking systems to automatically capture, categorise, and analyse transactional data across multiple currencies and business units. Leveraging our proprietary GSmart AI technology, the solution continuously learns from historical cash flows, sales data, and treasury information to automatically select optimal forecasting algorithms and improve accuracy by over 30%.</p> <p>You'll work on sophisticated machine learning models, automated variance analysis, real-time data orchestration from diverse financial sources, and intuitive dashboards that allow users to drill down from high-level summaries to individual transaction details. This is a critical platform managing over $100 billion in daily cash flow for enterprise customers across 40+ countries, with the technical challenge of delivering rapid 90-day implementations while maintaining enterprise-grade security and scalability.</p> <h1><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h1> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Collaborate with product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions</li> <li>Make decisions on the design, architecture, and delivery of systems</li> <li>Build teams and be an active coach and mentor to your team and grow them in their careers</li> <li>Drive agile development and analytical methodologies every day</li> <li>Strive to continuously improve the operations, processes, methodologies, technology choices, and practices of the team</li> <li>Interact with your team, customers, and peers to share information and improve cross-department processes</li> <li>Strive for transparency and partnership between our engineers and our business partners</li> <li>Engage in concept discussions, and proposed technology solutions, to meet business objectives and influence such decisions</li> <li>Ensure all work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards needed for organisational success</li> <li>Be a champion of the YBIYRI ethos (you-build-it-you-run-it), which includes participating in their on-call pager rotation.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who You Are:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>A leader, first and foremost</li> <li>An influential and effective communicator</li> <li>Highly skilled at developing people, building high impact teams, and attracting top talent</li> <li>Strong proficiency with the software development lifecycle and engineering excellence processes, Agile methodologies, along with skills in leading moderately sized projects</li> <li>Technical savvy, allowing you to guide complex technical discussions, weighing the tradeoffs, and advocate for sound decisions</li> <li>A skilled operator of Agile practices and data driven methodologies</li> <li>Ideally, possess deep knowledge and experience with AWS, and the Ruby/Rails tech stack</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Team Enablement &amp; Mentorship:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Mentor engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles</li> <li>Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team</li> <li>Champion engineering best practices including observability, incident response, and production excellence</li> <li>Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Cross-Functional Impact:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions</li> <li>Collaborate across distributed teams (Ireland, U.S., Philippines, Australia) to drive alignment on technical approaches</li> <li>Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities that create competitive advantages</li> <li>Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value, helping the team prioritise high-impact work</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Maximise Agility:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle that slow down the entire team</li> <li>Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity</li> <li>Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Ownership &amp; Accountability:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own critical systems end-to-end, from design through production support</li> <li>Take responsibility for production reliability and proactively prevent incidents</li> <li>Step into ambiguous situations and drive them to resolution without needing explicit direction</li> <li>Make tough technical trade-off decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> <p><strong>WHO WE ARE:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Your Best Work</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.&nbsp; A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Control of Your Finances</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employee giving match</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mobile phone stipend</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Care of Yourself</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">R&amp;R days so you can rest and recharge</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite &amp; virtual programming</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.&nbsp;</em></span></p> <hr> <div><em>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.</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Please find our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/eu-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice </a>and our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/ca-applicant-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">California Applicant Privacy Notice</a> for reference.</em></div> <div><hr></div></div>