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Staff Software Engineer, Payments
2025-07-01 P2P San Francisco,CAAt 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.
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:
The Sr. Staff Software Engineer will help lead and build the next generation of payment applications that enable banks to instantly settle cross-border payments to build the Internet of Value. Ripple's distributed financial technology outperforms today's banking infrastructure by driving down costs, growing processing speeds and delivering end-to-end transparency into payment fees, timing and delivery!
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Build, scale and maintain enterprise, distributed payment applications that complete settlement within seconds
- Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of backend applications
- Be a technical domain 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 standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience on large scale distributed backend systems, with the at least 5+ years in Java or similar (with spring framework), and 4+ years experience working as a tech lead and mentoring other specialists
- Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in payments / banking / e-commerce domains) , backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
- Experience building cloud applications on AWS or GCP, and distributed computing technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability, availability and security
- Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
- Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes
- A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
- BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant's experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$216,000
$270,000 USD
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.
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.