Ripple is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead the team that will design, deliver, and scale the Identity Platform for the next chapter of Ripple's growth. This platform is the backbone of how Ripple knows and trusts its customers, powering every critical step of the customer lifecycle, from onboarding and meeting compliance requirements to enabling secure, seamless product experiences across Ripple's entire suite.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager (or equivalent) leading platform or identity-focused teams delivering complex, distributed systems.
- Domain expertise in identity, KYC/KYB, regtech, or compliance-heavy platforms — with hands-on delivery of mission-critical identity capabilities.
- Experience integrating major vendors into platform architectures while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance.
- Strength in guiding teams through complex system migrations and legacy decoupling.
- Skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders — across engineering, product, compliance, and legal — into a coherent technical strategy.
- Proven ability to deliver platforms with uncompromising reliability, auditability, and compliance in a regulated environment.
- Experience building teams and capabilities that scale across multiple geographies and regulatory frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering team dedicated to the Identity Platform — defining its culture, standards, and ways of working from day one.
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to deliver capabilities that power customer onboarding and compliance workflows across Ripple's products.
- Integrate with world-class vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB, while owning the orchestration, persistence, and service layers that connect them to Ripple's core systems.
- Lead the design and governance of a core identity data model, decoupled from legacy systems and built as a source-of-truth across Ripple.
- Build for global scale — enabling identity workflows that meet diverse regulatory requirements and operational needs across multiple geographies.
- Define and execute a technical roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability.
- Champion engineering excellence in design, testing, security, observability, and operational practices.
Other
- The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
