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:

Ripple is growing rapidly and we are looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer to help create the next generation of data infrastructure built for scale, resilience and reliability! This is a high impact role. Do you like to build real-time data pipelines and a data lake for valuable internal tools used by leadership, compliance, finance, and product teams to make strategic business decisions? This engineer will be responsible for our Data API that powers public-facing applications used globally to follow the open-source ledger.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Build real time pipelines and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers

Power our externally-facing data APIs and applications built on top of them

Build foundational systems and services that allow users to focus on business and application logic via higher level programming models

Design and implement systems for scalability, availability and graceful degradation

Build frameworks for measuring and supervising data quality and integrity

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

8+ Years in Software Engineering

Proficient in at least one primary programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) and comfortable working with SQL

Ability to write sophisticated code and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently. Have a strong background in developing distributed systems with experience in scalable data pipelines

Familiar with technologies like Spark or Flink and comfortable in engineering data pipelines using data technologies on financial datasets

Highly or conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, Athena, etc.,) Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration

Experience with CI/CD pipeline orchestration, using Gitlab, Helm, and Terraform Experience with administration of Docker or Kubernetes infrastructure

Excited about operating independently, demonstrating excellence, and learning new technologies and frameworks

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

$188,000—$240,000 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.

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