Staff Backend Architect — Onboarding Platform

Ripple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Flexible hours

Job summary

Ripple Inc. is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to lead the design and rebuild of the onboarding platform. You will architect scalable, cloud-native services and orchestrate data pipelines across Ripple products like Payments, Custody, and Stablecoin.

You will migrate legacy Salesforce logic to resilient services, set technical direction, and mentor a lean, high-impact team with executive backing. This role offers hybrid in-office collaboration in California with growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Willingness to work with frontend frameworks to enable full-stack capability.
• Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale systems in complex environments.
• Strong API design and integration skills (REST and/or gRPC).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
• Leadership skills: set technical direction, mentor others, influence cross-team decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services powering onboarding across Ripple products.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, and other teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines.
• Migrate core onboarding logic from Salesforce into resilient, observable services with a dedicated persistence layer.
• Build platform capabilities enabling faster onboarding with fewer customer touchpoints while preserving trust and compliance.
• Contribute to foundational data modeling for Ripple’s future identity platform and mentor engineers.

Skills

Frontend integration

Large-scale systems design

API design (REST/gRPC)

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, E

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

ECS

REST

gRPC

Job description

Ripple Inc. is seeking a Staff-level backend engineer to lead the design and rebuild of the onboarding platform. You will architect scalable, cloud-native services and orchestrate data pipelines across Ripple products like Payments, Custody, and Stablecoin.

You will migrate legacy Salesforce logic to resilient services, set technical direction, and mentor a lean, high-impact team with executive backing. This role offers hybrid in-office collaboration in California with growth opportunities.