Senior Staff Technical Program Manager @ 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 magnificent cross-border transactions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle by capturing requirements, leveraging sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and integration testing
• 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 best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
• Proactively identify customer and infrastructure problems and drive corresponding solutions.
• Mentor and support the growth of junior engineers.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING: 

• 5-7 years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 3-5+ years in Java or similar (Golang, Scala, etc).
• Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, focusing on robust software design, scalability, and security.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications into modern distributed computing environments (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.)
• Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a complementary team
• Ability to encourage and drive standard engineering processes
• A positive demeanor and a passion for sharing knowledge
• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar