Computer Science Jobs at Ripple

Ripple’s mission is to enable payments every way, everywhere for everyone. We believe connecting traditional financial entities like banks, payment providers and corporations with emerging blockchain technologies and users is the path to an open, decentralized, and more inclusive financial future. This Internet of Value gives any internet-enabled person, application or device access to financial services that are transparent, fast, reliable, and cheap. Delivering this vision is a challenge of massive scale spanning $155 trillion in annual cross border fiat payments and the $1.5 trillion market of digital assets that has grown 10X in the last year.

We are looking for a seasoned software engineer to join our team building liquidity services at Ripple. Our liquidity platform and products enables businesses to offer crypto trading services to their end customers, and is a key part of Ripple’s strategy to simplify access to crypto liquidity for enterprises. Ideal candidates have experience building high performance, data intensive applications in the trading domain. You will set a high bar of technical excellence and are excited to innovate at the boundaries of traditional finance and trading.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Deliver reliable, high-throughput, low-latency (micro)services to power optimized decision-making at scale.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from sculpting technical vision and software design to unit and integration testing
• Work with teams across the organization, including product, design, marketing, integrations, ops, customer success, legal and more
• Be a technical subject matter expert, provide technical leadership and mentorship across our engineering teams
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 10+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, with the last 5-7+ years in high performance setting, and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead
• Deep experience building a global scale, automated trading systems.
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security
• Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering best practices
• Experience recruiting and mentoring a world-class team
• BS in Computer Science or similar