Senior Software Engineer, C++ / Rust
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You'll design, build, and maintain core components of the XRP Ledger, enhancing its programmability, smart contract capabilities, performance, and scalability. You'll lead the integration and maintenance of a WebAssembly (WASM) virtual machine within the XRPL's C++ core, and engage in the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and design to development in modern C++ and Rust, and rigorous testing. You'll author system design documents, lead technical discussions with internal and external engineering stakeholders, and uphold high standards for coding and testing as a steward of the open-source XRP ledger community, including active participation in code reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, with significant experience in modern C++ and Rust
- Demonstrable experience with WebAssembly (WASM), particularly in integrating a WASM VM or runtime with a C++ codebase
- A genuine passion for blockchain technology, its technical underpinnings, and its potential benefits
- The ability to independently solve highly complex problems with creative and effective solutions
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain difficult technical concepts to various audiences
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Nice to have: Experience developing open-source software and contributing to collaborative blockchain communities
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core components of the XRP Ledger to enhance its programmability, smart contract capabilities, performance, and scalability
- Lead the integration and maintenance of a WebAssembly (WASM) virtual machine within the XRPL's C++ core
- Engage in the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and design to development in modern C++ and Rust, and rigorous testing
- Author system design documents and lead technical discussions with internal and external engineering stakeholders
- Uphold high standards for coding and testing including active participation in code reviews
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages