Senior Software Engineer
Ripple
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.
Responsible for building scalable and performant enterprise software. Work with product, legal, and business development teams to build solutions that power our liquidity services at scale. Design, develop, and modify computer applications to support the development of Ripple's products and technologies. Deliver scalable platform with an emphasis on resilience, observability, and agility. Contribute to the full software development lifecycle, including software design, requirements gathering, and unit and integration testing. Analyze user needs to engineer software solutions, modify existing software, and improve software performance. Build foundational systems, services, and frameworks that allow users to focus on business logic. Develop frameworks to ensure the continued delivery of high-quality data and analysis to stakeholders. Monitor computer applications functioning to ensure specifications are met, and apply technical skills to troubleshoot and resolve the root cause of defects. Act as a technical subject matter expert, provide technical leadership, and share expertise with a growing team of engineers. Collaborate with teams across the organization, including product, design, and other technical operations teams regarding specific platform design and implementation.
Telecommuting permitted 100% per week – may live anywhere in the U.S.
40 hrs./week, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus 5 years of post-baccalaureate progressive software development experience; or a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus 3 years of software development experience.
Of the required experience, must have 3 years of experience in all of the following (which may be gained concurrently):
- Building scalable and performant enterprise software;
- Building end-to-end software solutions;
- Java
- Database technologies, including Postgres
Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in all of the following (which may be gained concurrently):
- Deploying and managing a continuous integration pipeline
- Microservices
- Cloud technologies, including AWS, GCP, Azure, or OpenShift
- Docker
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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.