Staff Software Engineer - Onboarding Platform (Cloud-native)

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

Job summary

Ripple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Staff backend engineer to lead the design and migration of onboarding systems across products. You will build cloud-native services, unwind Salesforce-bound logic, and shape company-wide architecture while mentoring engineers.

This role offers the chance to own critical infrastructure that touches Payments, Custody, and Stablecoin, with executive backing to scale a lean, high-impact team.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with REST and gRPC API design and integration.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services powering onboarding across Ripple products.
• Partner with Product, Compliance and engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines.
• Migrate core onboarding logic from Salesforce into resilient services and a dedicated persistence layer.
• Build platform capabilities enabling faster onboarding with trust and compliance.
• Mentor engineers and grow a lean, high-impact team.

Skills

Frontend exposure

Large-scale systems design

API design & integration

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Kubernetes / ECS

Technical debt reduction

Leadership & mentoring

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Java + Spring Boot

Go / Kotlin / Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Ripple Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Staff backend engineer to lead the design and migration of onboarding systems across products. You will build cloud-native services, unwind Salesforce-bound logic, and shape company-wide architecture while mentoring engineers.

This role offers the chance to own critical infrastructure that touches Payments, Custody, and Stablecoin, with executive backing to scale a lean, high-impact team.