Senior Software Engineer
Ripple
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 flawless cross-border transactions.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle by capturing requirements, leveraging sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and integration testing
- Work with teams across the organization, 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 best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
- Proactively identify customer and infrastructure problems and drive corresponding solutions.
- Mentor and support the growth of junior engineers.
- 6+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 4-6+ years in Java or similar (Golang, Scala, etc).
- 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 containerized 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 best practices
- A positive demeanour and a passion for sharing knowledge
- BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar