Senior Software Engineer

Ripple Labs Inc.; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Camden Town is seeking a Software Engineer to work on payment technologies. You will integrate with new bank APIs, advance internal systems, and prototype solutions in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have experience in building scalable enterprise software, knowledge of Java, and an interest in fintech. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Healthcare benefits

Flexible in-office collaboration

Generous vacation policy

Qualifications

• Experience building highly scalable and performant enterprise software.
• Knowledge of Java and its ecosystem, including threading and concurrency.
• A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Integrate with new bank APIs and normalize to the internal system schema.
• Advance the internal trading system (Prisma).
• Prototype new solutions for complex software problems.

Skills

Building scalable enterprise software

Java and its ecosystem

Stakeholder management and documentation

Interest in fintech and trading

Tools

gRPC

AMQP

Job description

Overview

Ripple is an established fintech company revolutionizing global finance with blockchain technology, offering a wide variety of financial services, including cross-border payments, institutional crypto liquidity, digital asset custody, and our enterprise-grade stablecoin RLUSD. As a Software Engineer at Ripple, you\u2019ll work on payment technologies, building scalable solutions that power the future of finance. Your primary responsibilities will be for a core part of the Payments offerings, Bank Integrations. This means serving as the single connectivity layer to banking partners, ensuring that data exchanged with external financial institutions remains correct, reliable, and always available. You will be responsible for facilitating the smooth distribution of this data from the connectivity layer to other parts of the company, powering both live production payment flows and reconciliation operations. The work includes maintaining and strengthening integrations with banking partners, resolving technical debt to improve stability, and evolving the platform to meet new business and compliance requirements. By advancing an already established production system, you will play a key role in increasing scale, efficiency, and observability, ensuring Ripple products interact seamlessly with global banks and payment providers in a consistent and trustworthy way.

What you\u2019ll do

• Integrate with new bank APIs and normalize to the internal system schema. Solving any bespoke integration approaches that will come up.
• Advance the system forward to an optimal state with clear boundaries and responsibilities.
• Work on our internal trading system (Prisma).
• Work on a variety of challenges spanning crypto, trading, fintech, and payment solutions.
• Fully integrate into a large system and spot opportunities for improvements and best practices.
• Prototype new solutions for complex software problems and implement them for production cloud deployments.
• Take the opportunity to build in a fast-paced startup 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.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience building highly scalable and performant enterprise software.
• Working knowledge of Java and its ecosystem (i.e., threading, concurrency, etc.).
• A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge - the go-to person on the team for small and large questions.
• Interest in fintech, markets, and trading is a must.
• Knowledge or high interest in our main tools: Java, event-driven architectures (AMQP or similar), gRPC, service meshes, etc.
• Obsession with finishing projects properly, with good stakeholder management, communications, and documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

Take Care of Yourself

• 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.

EEO & Privacy

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We\u2019re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

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