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Engineering Manager, Digital Assets

Ripple - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-17

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Salary: USD 212,000 - 265,000 / annual

Ripple is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield initiative integrating digital assets into the Ripple Treasury platform. This is a pioneering role with no existing playbook—you will establish how digital assets (XRP, RLUSD, tokenized assets, custody, cross-border settlement) fit into corporate treasury workflows and help create a new category of enterprise software. You will manage a team of up to four full-stack .NET developers, handling recruitment, mentoring, and ongoing development while remaining actively involved in coding. The team operates in a fast-paced Kanban workflow, shipping working software daily and iterating based on feedback from product, compliance, and treasury domain experts. Key responsibilities include: - Building and managing the engineering team, recruiting and developing full-stack .NET developers - Designing full-stack solutions spanning .NET backend services and Angular or React frontends, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, security, and auditability - Integrating Ripple's digital asset functions with Ripple Treasury's enterprise platform - Shipping working software daily in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements - Collaborating closely with Ripple's core digital assets team to understand protocol capabilities and roadmap alignment - Navigating ambiguity with confidence, making sound engineering decisions with incomplete information - Partnering with product, compliance, and treasury experts to translate requirements into shippable features for Fortune 500 CFOs and treasurers - Defining engineering practices for the team, including coding standards, review processes, testing strategies, and deployment patterns The role offers the opportunity to work on a mission-critical product at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, with a team of experienced industry leaders in a fast-paced startup environment. Requirements: - 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong full-stack background in .NET and modern frontend frameworks (Angular, React, or equivalent) - 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including recruitment, mentoring, and development of engineering groups - Demonstrated ability to ship software in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with unclear or rapidly changing requirements - Production background in fintech, digital assets, or blockchain, with experience delivering systems managing actual financial transactions or digital asset activities - Comfort with pioneering work; thrives when the playbook hasn't been written and finds energy in defining new approaches - Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional partners including product managers, compliance teams, and external engineering teams - Hands-on leadership orientation with willingness and ability to write production code alongside the team, especially in early stages Nice to have: - Deep familiarity with blockchain protocols, digital asset custody, tokenization, or cross-border settlement systems - Experience with XRP Ledger, RLUSD, or Ripple's product ecosystem - Background in corporate treasury, treasury management systems, or enterprise financial software - Experience integrating traditional financial infrastructure with digital asset platforms - Familiarity with regulatory requirements for digital asset products in financial services

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