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Staff Software Engineer, Stablecoin

London, UK

Please note this is for London, UK. You only need to apply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.

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:

Ripple is the world’s only enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Today the world sends more than $155 trillion across borders. Yet, the underlying infrastructure is dated and flawed. Ripple connects banks, payment providers, corporates and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet to provide one streamlined experience to send money globally.

Ripple is growing rapidly, and we are looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineering to help build the next generation of custody solutions that enable banks to instantly settle. Ripple’s distributed financial technology outperforms today’s banking infrastructure by minimizing costs, increasing processing speeds, and delivering end-to-end insight into fees, timing, and delivery.

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Build enterprise, distributed blockchain adjacent services to power Tokenization solutions for our customers
  • Deliver reliable, high-throughput, low-latency applications supporting complex systems of financial asset management
  • Provide technical direction for the project and team
  • Participate in design reviews and help break complex projects into secure and maintainable systems
  • Work with teams and leadership 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 best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
  • Mentor other team members

 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

  • 8+ years of hands-on software development experience on large scale distributed backend systems, with the last 4+ years in Java (with spring framework), and 1+ years experience working as a tech lead and mentoring other engineers
  • Strong system design skills and experience
  • A keen focus on performance, testing, and security
  • Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in Payments / Banking / E-Commerce, Exchanges, Payment service, API service experience domains)
  • Experience building cloud applications on AWS or GCP, and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability, availability and security
  • You are comfortable handling large, ambiguous problems and working with cross functional teams to craft solutions
  • Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
  • Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes
  • A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
  • BS in Computer Science or similar

Pluses:

  • Experience in stablecoin, exchanges, payment service, APIs experience.
  • Interest in the cryptocurrency, decentralized finance(Defi) space.
  • Understanding of exchange, crypto payment, decentralized finance, NFTs, etc.
  • Experience with React or other javascript frameworks
  • Experience with Solidity or Rust

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. 
  • 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.
  • Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees. 

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
 

Req ID: 24162