Senior Director, Engineering (FX Trading)

This person can be located in our Toronto, Remote (US), New York City, San Francisco, or Miami office.

We are looking for a Director in Engineering to lead our teams charged with determining and delivering optimal liquidity for every customer in the world in a cost-effective, robust and scalable manner.

You will mentor, lead and grow the team of Applied Scientists, Engineers, and Technical Program Managers building our liquidity and trading platforms that power Ripple’s payments and crypto liquidity products. From forecasting supply and demand, to optimizing routing across traditional and digital assets and venues, to enabling price discovery for the long-tail of crypto assets and tokens, to building a globally distributed, highly performant trading platform—the team leverages cutting-edge ML and engineering techniques to dramatically simplify access to liquidity.

Ideal candidates will have a track record of leadership and technical excellence in designing and delivering reliable global-scale solutions. You will be a hands-on leader, diving deep to set the right goals, set technical direction and deliver results in an incremental manner without sacrificing a long-term vision. You must be passionate about inventing and delivering customer-focused solutions to ambitious and ambiguous challenges.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Provide technical and scientific leadership for our forecasting, planning, routing, risk management, execution and experimentation systems that scalably and reliably deliver best-in-class liquidity to our customers.
• Own and deliver your roadmap while driving technical and operational excellence across our engineering and machine learning systems
• Be a program owner, responsible for business outcomes and technological innovation
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team, both your direct reports and the broader org
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s inventions and processes, so we can rapidly deliver innovations for customers

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Degree in computer science or other quantitative field; masters or PhD preferred
• Demonstrated ability in software development
• Experience building, growing, and leading hard-working engineering teams.
• Experience delivering complex, real-time internet-scale systems involving machine learning and AI; preferred if in finance or trading domains
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated through experience working with technical and non-technical teams
• Grow with autonomy and responsibility.
• Track record of recruiting and mentoring world-class teams

For positions that will be based in NYC, the annual salary range for this position is $234,080 - $292,600.  Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position.