Staff Software Engineer, Data

Ripple; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Software Engineer, where you will tackle ambitious problems in the cross-border payments space. In this role, you will design and implement scalable, low-latency microservices and event-driven data pipelines, ensuring operational excellence in trading systems. With a strong focus on career development, you will have the chance to mentor others and drive engineering best practices. This innovative firm offers a collaborative environment that values diversity and inclusion, providing competitive salaries, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a real-world impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Equity

Wellness reimbursement

Generous vacation policy

Catered lunches

Fully-stocked kitchens

Team bonding activities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in Java or similar languages.
• Experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems in trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, low-latency microservices for trading systems.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain high-quality data products.

Skills

Java

Golang

Scala

Data Streaming

Agile Development

Problem Solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Nomad

Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

Please note this is for London, UK. You only need toapply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.

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At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1.

You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking to optimise away manual inefficiencies.

The team has helped develop a number of modular building blocks

• Low-latency Algorithms for Automated Trading and Systematic Market Making
• Real-time streaming pipelines and signals
• Pricing libraries and tooling
• Venue connectivity for automated fund movement and management.

By the end of 2025 where we want to be

• Further evolution of the Algo suite, refining the signal processing and breadth of trading strategies and products.
• Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners.
• Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design and build scalable, low-latency microservices and event-driven data pipelines to support high-throughput trading systems.
• Champion data engineering best practices including schema evolution, data contracts, and data quality across event streams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to model, publish, and maintain high-quality data products aligned with enterprise standards.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring solutions to ensure operational excellence.
• Lead end-to-end software development efforts—from gathering requirements to deployment and production support.
• Contribute to engineering excellence through mentoring, code reviews, and driving best practices.
• Own and operate critical trading systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and alignment with business needs.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Java or similar languages (Golang, Scala, etc.).
• Proven track record building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems in trading or financial environments.
• Deep understanding of data streaming, order management systems, and modern persistence technologies (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Experience working in front-office trading environments, ideally with exposure to FX and/or crypto trading/ markets.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, FIX protocol, and containerized deployments using Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Strong grasp of agile development practices, secure software design, and scalable system architecture.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to mentor others and promote engineering best practices.
• A continuous learning approach and passion for solving complex technical problems with elegant solutions.

Other common names for this role: Software Engineer Data Platform

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up 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.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• 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
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match

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

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re 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.