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Salary: USD 200,000 - 245,000 / annual
Ripple is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Product Ledger team, which builds the double-entry ledger service powering accounting and financial state across Ripple's products. This is a hands-on management role requiring both strategic vision and technical depth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and lead engineering teams of 8+ engineers, motivating them to innovate and deliver outstanding results
- Partner closely with Product Management, Accounting, Compliance, Operations, Security, and Business Development to design and operate a correctness-critical, audit-ready ledger system
- Own the entire software development process and technical roadmap for the team
- Design event-driven systems that translate business events into balanced, auditable postings
- Ensure the platform scales across new business lines while maintaining audit readiness and Oracle integration
- Create shared vision and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships
Required Experience:
- 5+ years leading impactful engineering teams with direct experience managing teams of 8 or more
- Hands-on expertise in Java (Spring) with ability to review and contribute to backend service code
- Direct experience building or operating double-entry ledger or core accounting/financial systems (journals, debits/credits, chart of accounts, balance derivation, reversals)
- Proven track record with correctness-critical, high-throughput transactional systems including idempotency design, concurrency control, and balance-integrity guarantees
- Experience with revenue recognition, intercompany accounting, GL mapping, reconciliation, and ERP integration (e.g., Oracle)
- Strong grasp of databases at scale and familiarity with NoSQL data modeling (e.g., DynamoDB)
- Experience designing event-driven systems with simulation/dry-run tooling for onboarding new event types
- Comfort operating in regulated, audit-sensitive environments with immutable/append-only records and traceability requirements
- Proven track record defining and owning technical roadmaps across multiple product verticals
- Bias toward action, sound judgment under ambiguity, and success recruiting and growing strong engineers
Bonus: Familiarity with crypto custody and multi-network asset movement (wallets, blockchain networks, exchanges).
Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. The company is growing rapidly and offers opportunities to work on correctness-critical systems that impact the global financial system.
