Senior Software Engineer @ Ripple

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Be a bold 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, demonstrating sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and integration testing, and by ownership of monitoring and resolution of production issues
• 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 methodologies for coding, testing, and deployment
• Proactively identify customer and infrastructure difficulties and drive corresponding solutions.
• Mentor and support growth of junior engineers.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING: 

• 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 2-5+ years in Java or similar (Go, Python)
• Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
• 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.)
• Experience driving long-term cross-team engineering initiatives
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security standard processes
• Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard methodologies
• A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge
• Preferred Data management and analytics experiences in related financial services domain.
• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or an adjacent field