Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Own end-to-end derivative and hedge accounting across client portfolios, including documentation, effectiveness testing, journal entries, disclosures, valuation, and audit support under ASC 815 and IFRS 9. Manage complex hedging relationships, interpret FASB and IASB guidance, advise treasury and finance stakeholders, and improve accounting methodologies, templates, and technical guidance.

Lead a greenfield engineering team integrating Ripple’s digital asset capabilities with its enterprise Treasury platform. Manage and mentor up to four full-stack developers while remaining hands-on with .NET backend and Angular or React frontend development. Establish engineering practices, ship software rapidly through Kanban, and collaborate with product, compliance, treasury, and digital asset teams to deliver secure, reliable, auditable financial software amid evolving requirements.

Manage the AI Platform Engineering team and own the GSmart AI platform roadmap and delivery. Build dependable, measurable AI systems, collaborate with product and solution teams, enable internal engineering teams, and hire and mentor engineers. Contribute hands-on to architecture and full-stack production code while developing modern LLM and Generative AI infrastructure.

Lead product strategy and execution for payments and on-chain financial capabilities on the XRP Ledger. Own roadmaps spanning stablecoin payments, liquidity, FX, and programmable commerce; validate market opportunities; partner with engineering, financial institutions, payment providers, and ecosystem participants; and drive complex initiatives from discovery through launch and adoption. Translate customer and market needs into scalable product and protocol capabilities while managing technical, commercial, and go-to-market tradeoffs.

Lead data science across product and business areas, developing measurement frameworks, metrics, causal inference methods, forecasting models, and statistical analyses. Partner with product and business leaders on roadmap and growth decisions, apply AI and agentic workflows to accelerate analytics, communicate insights to senior stakeholders, and mentor other data scientists.

Leads the multi-year architecture and technical direction of Ripple’s financial crimes compliance control plane. Designs resilient, high-throughput distributed systems for real-time screening, transaction monitoring, vendor failover, auditability, observability, and regulatory compliance. Drives standards and adoption across engineering teams, partners with executive, compliance, legal, and product leaders, represents technical decisions to auditors and regulators, mentors senior engineers, and establishes production reliability practices.

Leads Ripple’s infrastructure engineering organization, overseeing multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, developer experience, and reliability engineering. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, driving multi-region resilience, operational excellence, security and compliance, cloud cost efficiency, observability, and infrastructure automation. The role manages multiple teams and managers, provides hands-on architectural leadership, partners with executives and security teams, and scales the organization through hiring, mentoring, and leadership development.

Develop and operate scalable, highly available backend payment systems for instant cross-border settlement. Design distributed architectures, APIs, and complex features; collaborate with product, legal, and business teams; reduce technical debt; support migrations; establish engineering standards; and mentor engineers in a regulated fintech environment.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Ripple's financial-crimes compliance control plane. Solve high-throughput distributed-systems problems (real-time decisioning, vendor-agnostic integration, auditability, resilience), translate regulatory requirements into engineering roadmaps, partner with senior leaders, raise reliability/observability standards, and mentor senior engineers.

Lead global corporate development strategy for Ripple by sourcing and executing acquisitions, investments, and partnerships. Provide market intelligence, run diligence and integrations, build processes, and collaborate across product, engineering, finance, legal, and BD to drive strategic growth in the crypto ecosystem.