Senior Software Engineer

rippleSan Francisco, CA, United Statesgreenhouse
Posted Date:

September 23, 2025

Employment Type:

Not specified

Work Arrangement:

On-site/Hybrid

Skills & Technologies

Engineeringpreferred

Job Description

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’s mission is to move value as easily as information moves today. We are building this “Internet of Value” by connecting traditional financial entities like banks, payment providers, and corporations with emerging blockchain technologies and end-users to build an inclusive financial future. The RippleNet Payments team is at the forefront of delivering on this vision. We are revolutionizing the $155 trillion cross border payments market by leveraging digital assets to implement a faster, cheaper and more reliable cross border payments platform.

We are looking for Software Engineers passionate about solving challenging problems 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

    • Be an entrepreneurial 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 seamless cross border transactions.
    • Participate in the full software development lifecycle by gathering requirements, leveraging sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit & 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 pain points and drive corresponding solutions.
    • Mentor and support 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, with a focus 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 diverse team
    • Ability to encourage and drive engineering best practices
    • A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
    • BS in Computer Science or similar

Other common names for this role: Java Developer, Senior Java Developer

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
$160,000$180,000 USD