Senior Software Engineer

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:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1.

You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking to optimise away manual inefficiencies.

The team has helped develop a number of modular building blocks

• Low-latency Algorithms for Automated Trading and Systematic Market Making
• Real-time streaming pipelines and signals
• Pricing libraries and tooling
• Venue connectivity for automated fund movement and management.

By the end of 2025 where we want to be

• Further evolution of the Algo suite, refining the signal processing and breadth of trading strategies and products.
• Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners.
• Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Conduct quantitative research to identify, test, and refine alpha signals and systematic trading strategies across asset classes.
• Design and rigorously backtest trading models, ensuring statistical robustness and real-world applicability.
• Develop and optimize execution algorithms (VWAP, TWAP, Participation, SOR) to enhance trading performance and minimize market impact.
• Monitor and maintain real-time trading systems, proactively addressing issues in execution, risk, and P&L.
• Perform post-trade and transaction cost analysis (TCA) to continuously improve execution quality and strategy effectiveness.
• Work across the full data pipeline—sourcing, cleaning, and managing large datasets for signal generation and backtesting.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of trading infrastructure, including EMS, OMS, and backtesting frameworks.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders, and engineers to improve strategy design, infrastructure resilience, and operational excellence.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 5+ years of software development experience in quantitative trading, with strong skills in Java and/or Python.
• Proficient in Python’s data science ecosystem (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) with solid debugging and analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience implementing trading algorithms and working on large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with transactional systems using modern databases like Aurora or DynamoDB.
• Exposure to front-office trading environments, ideally with FX or crypto markets.
• Hands-on experience with containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Nomad) and Agile development practices.
• Passion for clean, testable code with a strong emphasis on automated testing and scalable system design.
• A collaborative mindset, eagerness to learn, and drive to elevate engineering standards across the team.

Other common names for this role: Quant Developer, Algo developer 

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. 
• Bi-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.