Ripple Jobs in United States

This position is open to San Francisco or Remote within the US.

Ripple is the world’s only enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Today the world sends more than $155 trillion across borders. Yet, the underlying infrastructure is dated and flawed. Ripple connects banks, payment providers, corporates and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet to provide one frictionless experience to send money globally.

Ripple is growing rapidly and we are looking for a results-oriented engineer to help build the next generation payment platform that enables banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to create the Internet of Value. Ripple’s distributed financial technology outperforms today’s banking infrastructure by driving down costs, increasing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end visibility into payment fees, timing and delivery.

The Senior Software Engineer will help lead the design of the next generation of payment applications that enable banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to create the Internet of Value. Ripple’s distributed financial technology outperforms today’s banking infrastructure by driving down costs, increasing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end visibility into payment fees, timing and delivery. As Ripple’s customer base grows globally, the Senior Engineer will help drive the move to a highly available cloud deployment, processing fast and resilient payments.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Build enterprise, distributed payment applications that execute settlement within seconds to enable the Internet of Value
• Prototype new solutions for complex software problems and implement them for on premise and cloud deployments and use cases
• Work with wider engineering team on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of core products
• Be a technical subject matter 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 best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, with the last 3-5+ years in Java, and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead
• Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in payments / banking / e-commerce domains) , backed by an RDBMS (PostgreSQL, Oracle or MS SQL Server)
• Experience with blockchain or cryptocurrency based systems is a bonus
• 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
• A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
• BS in Computer Science or similar