Ripple - New York, NY
posted 13 days ago
About the position
Ripple Custody is a dynamic, fast-growing team solving the most complex challenges at the intersection of distributed ledger technology, blockchain, applied cryptography, and global finance. Trusted by the world's leading custodians, banks, regulated exchanges, and corporations, we deliver innovative solutions to securely store, trade, issue, and manage digital assets with unmatched agility and security. One of Ripple's core offerings, Harmonize, is a mission-critical orchestration platform for digital assets. It enables institutions to seamlessly manage a diverse range of asset types, providing advanced capabilities such as asset-agnostic custody, trading, tokenization, staking, and smart contract management. Harmonize connects institutions effortlessly to decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems and Web3 applications, empowering them to seize new opportunities in the evolving digital economy with the highest levels of security and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Work with complex technologies where solutions are to be created, expect challenges
- Build scalable and distributed components in Rust/C++ for the backend of Harmonize
- Interact with the different teams, including software architects, frontend and backend developers, product owners and designers
- Analyze different blockchains protocols and understand their specificities
- Apply latest cryptographic primitives in the context of blockchains and secure components
- Actively participate in code reviews so that code delivered by you and your team is of great quality
- Collaborate with support, QA, and operations teams
Requirements
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, equivalent practical engineering experience is a reasonable substitute
- 4+ year of experience in software development using C++
- 2+ year of experience with Rust including Tokio framework
- 2+ year of experience with distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of cryptography
- Strong knowledge of bytes manipulation
Nice-to-haves
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- gRPC and Protobuf
- Blockchain technology
