Senior Software Engineer @ Ripple

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• You will be joining a team building a highly scalable and available distributed system. Performance and reliability are critical
• You will be expected to do everything from architecture and design, to implementing those designs in code (C++), to testing the implementations for correctness and performance, and finally optimizing the implementations for better performance
• Our open source software runs the XRP Ledger, and thus you will work directly on the XRP Ledger protocol and data
• Write concise system design documents leading discussions among both internal and external engineering stakeholders

WHAT YOU’LL BRING: 

• 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience, with the last 2+ years in C++
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or similar
• Experience in backend and/or distributed systems development
• Experience working with any one of the database technologies (Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc)
• Excited about blockchains, the technical details and the potential benefits
• Ability to communicate and explain difficult technical concepts to various audiences / stakeholders
• Ability to independently solve complex problems with creative solutions
• Ability to make key tradeoff decisions balancing time, quality, and scope