Principal Engineer

Senior Engineering Talent Sought for Payments Engineering Organization

Ripple is seeking a senior engineering talent to help evolve and define the future state architecture for its enterprise blockchain solution, RippleNet, to achieve a 10X scale goal.

The Challenge:

• Deliver a cost-effective, instant, and frictionless customer experience for cross-border payments at scale.
• Define the future state system architecture and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the definition and evolution of the Payments at 10X roadmap.
• Represent the organization in Ripple enterprise-level engineering decisions.
• Work closely with product managers and customer-facing functions to ensure a frictionless customer experience.
• Elevate engineering standards, inspire engineers, and enable continuous improvements.
• Build highly available, scalable, distributed systems and share experience and knowledge with the engineering community.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous situations and influence people at all levels and across organizations.
• Keep an eye on industry evolution in the blockchain and crypto world from the payments standpoint.
• Mentor and provide guidance and assistance in the career development of others.

Requirements:

• At least 12+ years' experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to large-scale projects as an architect or key individual contributor.
• 5+ years of experience in Java, with working experience with Python, NoSQL, RDBMS preferred.
• Experience crafting or contributing to multi-year engineering roadmap based on product strategies.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers at all levels.
• Experience working with private and public clouds (AWS, GCP) and capacity management principles.
• Prior experience in migrating systems from a monolith architecture to microservices-based systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience presenting to broad audiences and to senior leadership.

About Ripple:

Ripple is a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders, offering a learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.

Benefits:

• 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 for rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Industry-leading parental leave policies.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events.