Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.

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Skills

Api Architecture Auditability Aws Backend Compliance Distributed Systems Failover Go Grafana Grpc Idempotency Java Jvm Kubernetes Observability Opentelemetry Regulation Resilience Rest Rust

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · San Francisco · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will set the architectural direction for a compliance control plane and drive adoption of resilient engineering patterns across organizational boundaries. You will solve complex distributed systems problems, translate regulatory obligations into durable infrastructure, guide production ownership, advise senior stakeholders, and mentor experienced engineers.

Requirements

12+ years building production backend systems
Deep expertise in Java or comparable JVM languages Go or Rust
Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale
Ability to set technical direction across organizational boundaries
Strong distributed-systems and resilience design skills
Excellent REST and gRPC API design judgment
Experience in regulated environments
Working knowledge of Kubernetes
Working knowledge of Grafana OpenTelemetry or similar observability tools
Cloud infrastructure knowledge with AWS preferred
Experience developing senior and staff engineers
Fintech payments identity or compliance technology experience preferred

Responsibilities

Own the multi-year architecture for the compliance control plane
Solve multi-vendor failover and high-throughput decisioning problems
Design regulator-grade auditability and resilience across dependency failures
Define integration contracts resilience patterns and compliance primitives
Translate regulatory obligations into engineering roadmaps
Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints
Partner with executive stakeholders and represent technical positions to auditors regulators and external partners
Set standards for observability alerting incident response and reliability
Mentor staff and senior engineers
Elevate design quality through architecture reviews

Benefits

Professional development budget
Flexible manager-directed office attendance
Healthcare benefits covering physical and mental healthcare
Retirement benefits
Family-forming and family-support benefits
Employee giving match
Mobile phone stipend
R&R days
Wellness reimbursement
Weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming
Generous vacation policy
Parental leave
Family planning benefits
Catered lunches
Stocked kitchens
Team offsites and social events