Principal Software Engineer

Ripple - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Publishing Industries

About the position

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. Ripple is the world's premier enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Today the world sends more than $160+ trillion across borders. Ripple connects banks, payment providers, corporates and digital asset exchanges via RippleNet to provide one frictionless experience to send money globally. Today, we are delivering a cost-effective, instant, and frictionless customer experience to enable our enterprise customers to manage cross-border payments at scale. Given the explosive growth and complexity, we, the payments engineering organization, embarked on our journey to scale the systems to 10X. We are looking for senior engineering talent to help us evolve and define the future state architecture to achieve our audacious goal. The challenge lies in delivering magical customer experience, incremental business value, strengthening engineering fundamentals, building intelligent systems, and growing future leaders - all in a measurable and incremental way. You will work closely with the engineering leaders and play a critical role in achieving these goals. This is a very high visibility role with lots of opportunities to grow.

Responsibilities

• Define the future state system architecture and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the definition and evolution of the Payments at 10X roadmap.
• Represent Ripple in enterprise level engineering decisions and ensure alignment with overall direction.
• Work closely with product managers and customer-facing functions to create a frictionless customer experience.
• Define and orchestrate engineering forums to elevate engineering standards and inspire continuous improvements.
• Build highly available, scalable, distributed systems and share knowledge with the engineering community.
• Deliver incremental value to the business and uphold engineering fundamentals.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous situations and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Monitor industry evolution in blockchain and crypto from a payments standpoint.
• Mentor and provide guidance for the career development of others.

Requirements

• At least 12+ years' experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to large scale projects as an architect or key individual contributor.
• 5+ years of experience in Java is required.
• Working experience with Python, NoSQL, RDBMS is preferred.
• Experience crafting or contributing to multi-year engineering roadmap based on product strategies.
• Experience in mentoring and growing engineers at all levels.
• Experience working with private and public clouds (AWS, GCP) and capacity management principles.
• Prior experience in migrating systems from monolith architecture to microservices based systems is preferred.
• Experience leading software evaluation and decision making processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with blockchain technology and its applications in payments.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and practices.