Senior Staff 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:

RippleX is dedicated to empowering the builders of tomorrow on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), one of the world’s fastest and most reliable public blockchains. We believe in democratizing the digital economy by providing practical support, empowering a community of developers, and offering the expertise of a visionary technology company.

The XRPL is a decentralized, public blockchain led by a global community of businesses and developers looking to solve problems and create value. Proven reliable over more than a decade of operation and closing over 90 million ledger, the XRPL offers streamlined development, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. We are looking for senior engineering talent to help us maintain this high technical bar, while building innovative solutions to ensure the XRPL can power the growing needs of the global digital economy. Ideal candidates will have a track record of defining a technical vision, but also developing the incremental path to get from here to there and bringing others along on the journey.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Increase the capabilities, performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the XRP ledger.
• You keep an eye on the industry evolution in the blockchain and crypto world and ensure the XRPL is poised to meet the needs of blockchain developers.
• Work across RippleX and the broader XRPL community to understand the requirements of XRPL builders, and implement the technical strategy to support them.
• You are hands-on and know what is needed to build highly available, scalable, distributed systems, and you cherish every opportunity to share your experience and knowledge with the engineering community.
• You have an operator attitude. You understand the value of delivering incremental value and engineering fundamentals.
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Actively participate in code reviews to maintain the high quality of our codebase.
• You love mentoring and providing guidance and assistance in the career development of others.
• Your strength lies in the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and influence people around you comes natural to you.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience on large-scale distributed backend systems, with minimum 4+ years experience working as a tech lead and mentoring other specialists
• Expert-level experience in C++ is required.
• Experience with blockchain technology and protocols, and traditional financial systems and concepts.
• Experience with crafting or contributing to multi-year engineering roadmaps.
• Experience with implementing successful approaches, techniques, and systems for the team and the company to achieve success.
• Experience with leading software evaluation and decision making processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience addressing broad audiences.

Other common names for this role: C++ 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.