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At Ripple, were building a world where value moves like information does today. Its big, its bold, and were 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.
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The Work
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets 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.
You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking to optimise away manual inefficiencies.
Example Projects
The team has helped develop a number of modular building blocks
Low-latency Algorithms for Automated Trading and Systematic Market Making
Real-time streaming pipelines and signals
Pricing libraries and tooling
Venue connectivity for automated fund movement and management.
By the end of 2025 where we want to be
Further evolution of the Algo suite, refining the signal processing and breadth of trading strategies and products.
Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners.
Continuing to support and complement Ripples Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units
What Youll Do
Be an ambitious 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 a diverse range of trading use cases
Engage in the complete software development lifecycle by collecting requirements, showcasing solid software design principles, and maintaining operational excellence through unit and integration testing
Be a true owner, managing and supporting Trading Engineering applications throughout product lifecycle
Work with teams across the organisation, 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 standard processes for coding, testing, and deployment
Proactively identify customer and infrastructure difficulties and drive corresponding solutions.
Mentor and support growth of junior engineers.
What You'll Bring
5+ years of hands-on software development experience in trading or financial systems, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems using Java, Golang, or Scala.
Strong exposure to Front-Office Trading environments, with a solid understanding of FX and/or Crypto trading systems and market dynamics.
Experience designing and building transactional systems backed by modern data stores like Aurora or DynamoDB, with a strong emphasis on scalability and reliability.
Familiarity with distributed computing platforms and deploying containerized applications using tools such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
Working knowledge of front-end frameworks (e.g. React) and an interest in enhancing user experience is a plus.
Experience in Agile methodologies and committed to robust software architecture, security best practices, and continuous delivery pipelines.
Team-oriented mindset, with a passion for mentoring, sharing knowledge, and driving engineering best practices across the org.
Growth mindset, driven by experimentation, continuous learning, and a passion for solving complex system-level challenges.
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.
Bi-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. Were 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.Seniority level Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type Employment typeFull-time
Job function Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
IndustriesTechnology, Information and Internet
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