2 months ago
Base Salary
$212k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane, including screening orchestration, resilience and observability, vendor-agnostic integration, and decision/data planes
- Drive complex technical problems involving multi-vendor failover, sub-second decisioning, regulator-grade auditability, and partial dependency failures
- Translate regulatory and organizational goals into engineering primitives, technical roadmaps, milestones, and execution plans
- Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints and lead initiatives to address them
- Partner with senior leaders to align cross-functional objectives and turn regulatory requirements into engineering solutions
- Set production ownership standards for observability, alerting, and incident response
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and improve design quality and reliability across the team
Requirements
- 8+ years building production backend systems with deep expertise in Java or comparable JVM languages, Go, or Rust
- Experience owning architecture and technical direction for complex distributed systems at scale
- Strong resilience and distributed-systems design skills, including failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, and high-throughput real-time decisioning
- Excellent API design judgment with REST and gRPC
- Ability to translate regulatory obligations, audit requirements, and partner needs into durable engineering plans
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar observability tooling, and cloud infrastructure, with AWS preferred
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology is preferred, though adjacent high-stakes systems architecture experience is accepted
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees come in
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and other events
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days, vacation policy, and parental leave
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens
- Benefits listed are for full-time employees
About Ripple
Ripple builds enterprise blockchain-based payments, treasury, and crypto liquidity products for banks, payment providers, businesses, and governments. It licenses software and provides network services that power cross-border transfers (including On-Demand Liquidity using XRP) and offers a CBDC platform for central banks. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Ripple serves over 300 customers across more than 40 countries.