Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Payments Orchestration
You will lead the team responsible for crafting, delivering, and scaling the Payments Orchestration layer, ensuring Ripple's payments products move with speed and integrity while meeting the strict demands of a regulated global business. You'll manage a critical, large, and high-performing engineering team and own the strategic evolution of the Payments Orchestration vision, delivering core capabilities that keep customer experiences secure, compliant, and globally scalable. You'll partner closely with Product, Operations, Services, Compliance, and other engineering teams, define a technical roadmap, and champion engineering excellence across design, testing, security, observability, and operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop, hire and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to 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 by enabling payments orchestration that meets 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 to dig into how things work and understand how to improve and scale them
- Ability to thrive with autonomy and responsibility
- Good understanding of Java Spring, microservice architecture and AWS (preferred)
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month to come into the office
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with leadership Q&A
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and other events
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages