Software Engineer II

Ripple•San Francisco, CA

53d

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. The work: In this role, As a Software Engineer II, you will be one of the core engineers within Ripple’s central Data Engineering. This team implements the data ingestion and transformation for analytics, machine learning and powering various business functions at Ripple. You are curious about the bottlenecks and failure modes of a system and look for opportunities to continually improve cost/performance characteristics. You are hands-on in driving key technical decisions, ensuring the right tradeoffs are made to deliver high-quality results and deliver high, measurable customer value. You work well across functions and teams, including data science, product, application engineering, compliance, finance and others. Your passion for good engineering is complemented by strong instincts to deliver value.

Requirements

Proficient( 3 - 6yrs) in at least one primary programming language (e.g. Python, Scala) and comfortable working with SQL
Experienced in at least one Data Warehouse or data lake platforms such as Databricks
Ability to write sophisticated code and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently.
Enjoy helping teams push the boundaries of analytical insights, creating new product features using data, and powering machine-learning models.
Familiar with developing distributed systems with experience in scalable data pipelines
Familiar with data technologies like Spark or Flink and comfortable in engineering data pipelines using these technologies on financial datasets.
Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration
Highly or conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, Athena, etc.,)
Experience in orchestrating CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Helm, and Terraform.
Appreciate the importance of excellent documentation and data debugging skills.
Excel at taking vague requirements and crystallizing them into scalable data solutions
Excited about operating independently, demonstrating perfection, and learning new technologies and framework

Responsibilities

Highly efficient in shipping solutions to both large and small projects.
Can handle ambiguity in requirements and can define and propose solutions for them.
Writes, presents, and gets agreement on the design document for a project highlighting the architecture, timelines and alternatives considered.
Owns the development and rollout for a small to mid-sized projects.
Writes clean tech specs and identifies risks before starting major projects.
Recognizes trade-offs and identifies impact/risks between alternative solutions.
Improves code structure and architecture in data pipelines of testability and maintainability.
Plays an active role in breaking down initiatives that span multiple sprints and tasks.
Leads feature development with 1-2 collaborators.

Benefits

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!
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
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