Senior Software Engineer

Ripple

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 21 days ago
THE WORK:We are looking for Software Engineers who are passionate about solving high-reaching problems in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about our engineers' growth and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1.WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • 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.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
  • 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

Ripple