Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Posted 18 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA
216K-243K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • Web3
The Role
The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the development and maintenance of enterprise payment applications that facilitate instant cross-border payments. Responsibilities include designing backend applications, providing technical leadership, and improving engineering standards with a focus on scalability, availability, and security.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

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:

The Sr. Staff Software Engineer will help lead and build the next generation of payment applications that enable banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to build the Internet of Value. Ripple's distributed financial technology outperforms today's banking infrastructure by driving down costs, growing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end transparency into payment fees, timing and delivery!

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Build, scale and maintain enterprise, distributed payment applications that complete settlement within seconds
  • Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of backend applications
  • Be a technical domain expert, provide technical leadership and share your expertise with a growing team of engineers
  • Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

  • 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience on large scale distributed backend systems, with the at least 5+ years in Java or similar (with spring framework), and 4+ years experience working as a tech lead and mentoring other specialists
  • Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in payments / banking / e-commerce domains) , backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
  • Experience building cloud applications on AWS or GCP, and distributed computing technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability, availability and security
  • 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 or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant's experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions. 

CA Annual Base Salary Range

$216,000-$242,999 USD

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.

 

Please find our UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice and our California Applicant Privacy Notice for reference.

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
733 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain technology. By joining Ripple’s growing global network, financial institutions can process their customers’ payments anywhere in the world instantly, reliably and cost-effectively. Banks and payment providers can use the digital asset XRP to further reduce their costs and access new markets.

Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and 
six continents.

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