Senior Software Engineer, Liquidity

Ripple

Ripple

Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Nov 15, 2023

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:

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.

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 substantial 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 software engineer to join our team building trading and liquidity infrastructure at Ripple. These systems are a key part of Ripple’s strategy to simplify access to crypto and cross-border liquidity for enterprises. In this role, you will bring technical excellence and high standards in building highly performant trading systems.

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WHAT YOU’LL DO:

  • Be an ambitious builder, working up and down the stack, mixing software engineering, data engineering, and distributed systems knowledge to build highly available, reliable and scalable systems for liquidity management.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle by capturing requirements, demonstrating sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and 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 standard methodologies for coding, testing, and deployment
  • Proactively identify customer and infrastructure problems and drive corresponding solutions.
  • Mentor and support the growth of junior engineers.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

  • 4+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, with the last 3+ years in Go or Java
  • Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
  • Experience with Agile development of distributed services, focusing 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 standard engineering processes
  • A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
  • Experience in orchestration systems or crypto/finance domains is a plus.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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.
  • Ripple is Flexible First: you have the option to work from home, from our offices, or a combination of the two around our centers of gravity (15 global offices).
  • 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

  • Twice a quarter 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 Ripple employees. For all Metaco roles, please discuss benefits with your recruiter.


Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re 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.