Staff Software Engineer, Compliance

Ripple - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Publishing Industries

About the position

We are looking for an expert Staff Software Engineer who is passionate about solving exciting and ambiguous problems in the emerging crypto compliance space. This role provides opportunities to think out-of-the box to solve traditional and non-traditional problems using innovative approaches. We are deeply passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. The successful candidate will have a high degree of accountability, visibility and responsibility from Day 1!

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, scalable and performant Compliance systems to support a payments business that uses crypto to deliver an innovative experience to customers.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle by capturing requirements, using sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit and integration testing.
• Work with wider technical teams on the design, deployment and continuous improvement of backend applications.
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard processes for coding, testing, and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership whilst mentoring and supporting the development of junior engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on Software Development experience, with the last 5-7+ years writing code in Java (with Spring/Spring Boot Framework) and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead.
• Experience in building systems backed by modern persistence technologies, preferably in payments / banking / e-commerce domains, backed by (Aurora, DynamoDB etc.).
• Experience in at least one of the web frontend frameworks: Node Js, React JS, Angular Js etc.
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security.
• Experience building cloud applications on AWS, and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in owning the end to end delivery of large, sophisticated features.
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering standard processes.
• A positive approach and a passion for sharing knowledge.
• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar.