Engineering Manager, Financial Platform

As an Engineering Manager at Ripple, you lead the Product Ledger team, which builds the double-entry ledger service powering accounting and financial state across Ripple Products. You 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.

What you'll do

• 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 customers and serve as a role model for other engineers
• Create a shared vision and build 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

What you bring

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

Nice to have

• Familiarity with crypto custody and multi-network asset movement, such as wallets, blockchain networks, and exchanges, given the ledger's asset and network balancing model

What we offer

• Annual base salary range for NY-based positions: $200,000-$245,000 USD, plus equity and potential bonuses
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Professional development budget to support learning
• Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month they come in
• R&R days to rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy, decided with your manager
• Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages, and team events

About Ripple

Ripple builds crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to improve the global financial system. The company operates across multiple product lines serving diverse verticals in the financial services space.