Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
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 be the technical anchor for a small, high-impact team rebuilding Ripple's Customer Onboarding Platform. You'll design and build new backend services from the ground up, unwind years of Salesforce-bound logic into modern engineering-owned services, and integrate vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB while building the surrounding orchestration and data flows. You'll partner with Product, Compliance, and Engineering to influence architecture at company-wide scale, mentor engineers, and help grow a lean, high-performing team, all with direct executive backing.
Requirements
- Deep full stack engineering experience in modern, cloud-native, distributed systems
- Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale systems in complex environments
- Strong API design and integration skills (REST and/or gRPC)
- Exposure to frontend frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) for full-stack capability
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Comfort navigating and reducing technical debt while delivering business value
- Leadership skills: can set technical direction, mentor others, and influence cross-team decisions
- Experience with Java + Spring Boot preferred
- Candidates from other backend stacks (Go, Kotlin, C#, Python, Rust, etc.) welcome if able to quickly learn JVM technologies
- Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.) preferred
- Domain knowledge in fintech, regtech, KYC/KYB, identity verification, or compliance-heavy systems preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services that power onboarding across Ripple's product suite
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines
- Migrate core onboarding logic out of Salesforce into resilient, observable services and a dedicated persistence layer
- Build platform capabilities that enable faster onboarding with fewer customer touchpoints, while preserving trust and compliance
- Contribute to foundational data modeling work that will feed into Ripple's future identity platform
- Champion engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and operational practices
- Mentor engineers and help grow a lean, high-impact team
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month to come into the office
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings with leadership Q&A
- 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 and fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages