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Senior Engineering Manager, Financial Crimes Engineering

San Francisco, CA, United States

Please note this is for San Francisco, CA, United States. You only need to apply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.

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 WORK:

The Financial Crimes Engineering team at Ripple builds the systems that protect our products and customers against fraud, sanctions risk, and financial crime. This is a high-leverage platform team responsible for delivering the integrations, orchestration, and observability that ensure Ripple operates safely, securely, and compliantly across the globe.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow this team as it enters its next chapter. You’ll operate at the intersection of platform engineering, vendor integration, and global compliance — ensuring Ripple can scale with confidence in a regulated industry.

This is a pivotal leadership role: you will guide the team’s strategy, shape its culture, and deliver the vendor integrations and service layers that make Ripple’s financial crime defenses robust, reliable, and trusted worldwide.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Lead and grow the team – Hire, develop, and coach a high-performing engineering team dedicated to financial crimes prevention systems, defining its culture and ways of working.
  • Deliver trusted integrations – Partner with Compliance, Product, and other engineering teams to identify leading vendor platforms for sanctions screening, fraud detection, and AML.
  • Engineer for scale – Own the orchestration and observability frameworks that make these vendor tools enterprise-ready at Ripple scale.
  • Drive technical strategy – Define and execute a roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural durability.
  • Champion excellence – Set standards for security, reliability, and operational rigor across financial crimes engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

  • Proven track record as a Senior Engineering Manager (or equivalent) leading backend or platform teams delivering distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience integrating major third-party vendor platforms into mission-critical architectures.
  • Strength in building systems that meet regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements in fintech, regtech, or other complex domains.
  • Ability to align diverse stakeholders — across engineering, product, and compliance — into a coherent technical strategy.
  • Proven success building and growing high-performing teams.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), and event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, etc.).
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions. 
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$224,000—$252,000 USD

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

  • 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.
  • Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
  • 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!

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. 

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
 

Req ID: 25349