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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

We are looking for a Staff 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.
  
  

• 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 Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in the trading domain, building large-scale distributed systems, with 6+ years in Java or similar languages like Golang or Scala.
• Proven track record in front-office trading environments, with deep expertise in designing and implementing high-performance financial and trading systems, including FX and crypto.
• Strong experience with modern transactional systems backed by technologies like Aurora and DynamoDB, optimized for speed, consistency, and fault tolerance.
• Skilled in containerized application development and deployment using Kubernetes, Nomad, and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Hands-on knowledge of front-end technologies such as React is a plus, with an appreciation for intuitive and high-quality user experiences.
• Agile champion with a strong foundation in distributed service design, emphasizing security, robust architecture, and iterative development.
• Mentorship-oriented leader who drives engineering best practices, fosters knowledge sharing, and cultivates high-performing, collaborative teams.
• Continuous learner and systems thinker, passionate about solving complex problems with elegant solutions and driving innovation through experimentation.
  
  

• 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!
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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