Summary

The Sr. Staff Software Engineer will help lead and build the next generation of payment applications that enable banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to build the Internet of Value. Ripple’s distributed financial technology outperforms today’s banking infrastructure by driving down costs, growing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end transparency into payment fees, timing and delivery!

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

1. Build, scale and maintain enterprise, distributed payment applications that complete settlement within seconds
2. Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of backend applications
3. Be a technical domain expert, provide technical leadership and share your expertise with a growing team of engineers
4. Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

1. 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience on large scale distributed backend systems, with the at least 5+ years in Java or similar (with spring framework), and 4+ years experience working as a tech lead and mentoring other specialists
2. Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in payments / banking / e-commerce domains) , backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
3. Experience building cloud applications on AWS or GCP, and distributed computing technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
4. Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability, availability and security
5. Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
6. Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes
7. A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
8. BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar

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

$216,000—$270,000 USD

Skills

• AWS
• Development
• Java
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration