2 hours ago
Base Salary
$236k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year architectural vision for the compliance control plane, including screening orchestration, resilience and observability, vendor integrations, and decision and data planes.
- Drive high-ambiguity technical problems such as multi-vendor failover, sub-second real-time decisioning, regulator-grade auditability, and resilience across partial dependency failures.
- Define integration contracts, resilience patterns, and compliance primitives for adoption by partner engineering teams across organizational boundaries.
- Translate regulatory obligations and business goals into durable engineering primitives and sequenced technical roadmaps.
- Anticipate scaling constraints and platform risks and lead initiatives to address them before they become incidents.
- Partner with Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Product leadership and represent the platform to auditors, regulators, and external partners.
- Set standards for observability, alerting, incident response, production ownership, and reliability.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and improve design quality through architecture reviews.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Java or comparable JVM languages, Go, or Rust.
- Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale across multiple teams or organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to set organizational-level technical direction and drive adoption without formal authority.
- Strong distributed-systems and resilience design expertise, including failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, and high-throughput real-time decisioning.
- Strong API design judgment and experience with REST or gRPC.
- Experience translating regulatory findings, audit obligations, and partner requirements into durable engineering plans and defending those decisions to auditors and examiners.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling such as Grafana or OpenTelemetry, and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Experience developing senior and staff engineers and raising an organization’s technical bar.
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology is preferred; adjacent high-stakes systems experience is also welcomed.
Benefits
- Professional development budget and access to a learning environment with experienced industry leaders.
- Flexible in-office collaboration, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees come in.
- Team offsites, bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
- Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
- R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
- Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, snacks, beverages, and employee events.
- Full-time employee benefits apply to this role.
About Ripple
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.