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. # 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
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. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
