Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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.

If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

The Position:

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!

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.

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 Cash Forecasting team:

Cash Forecasting 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.

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%.

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.

What You'll Do:

• 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 organisational success
• Be a champion of the YBIYRI ethos (you build it you run it), which includes participating in their on call pager rotation.

Who You Are:

• 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
• Ideally, possess deep knowledge and experience with AWS, and the Ruby/Rails tech stack

Team Enablement & Mentorship:

• 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

Cross Functional Impact:

• 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 prioritise high impact work

Maximise Agility:

• 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

Ownership & Accountability:

• 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

Take Control of Your Finances

• 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

Take Care of Yourself

• 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

Benefits listed above are for full time employees.

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