Staff Software Engineer, Payments

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:

We are looking for Software Engineers passionate about solving exciting problems in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Be an ambitious builder, working up and down the stack, mixing software engineering, data engineering, and distributed systems knowledge to build modern enterprise payment applications.
• Build reliable, high-throughput, low-latency microservices to power flawless cross border transactions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle by capturing requirements, using sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and integration testing
• Architect, tune and maintain production database systems.
• Work with teams across the organization, including product, legal, and business development to think beyond the technical implications of your design decisions
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard processes for coding, testing, and deployment
• Proactively identify customer and infrastructure difficulties and drive corresponding solutions.
• Mentor and support growth of junior engineers.
• Contribute to hiring plans and long term team strategy.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 8+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, with the last 5-7+ years in Java or similar (Go, Python) and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead
• Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB etc.)
• Experience in data migration and database upgrades, database tuning expertise, database monitoring and alerting.
• Experience in production database support for critical systems.
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications into modern distributed computing environments (Kubernetes, Nomad etc.)
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes
• A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar