Software Engineer

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 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 Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units

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 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. 

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 2+ years of hands-on Software Development experience within the trading domain on large scale distributed systems, primarily in Java or similar (Golang, Scala etc).
• Experience working in a Front-Office Trading environment and building financial / trading systems
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment
• FX and/or Crypto Trading experience
• Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security.
• Experience building and deploying containerised applications into modern distributed computing environments (Kubernetes, Nomad etc.)
• Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard methodologies
• A positive demeanour and a passion for sharing knowledge
• BSc in Computer Science or similar
• Passion for solving complex problem spaces and optimising for simple solutions
• Value impact-driven experimentation of new patterns and tooling
• Approach of continuous learning and improvement, for yourself and the team

Other common names for this role: Front Office Engineer, Java Developer 

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.