Web3 Staff Software Engineer, Liquidity (Prisma)

This position can be located in Toronto, New York City, San Francisco, Miami, or Remote in the United States. Ripple’s mission is to enable payments every way, everywhere for everyone. We believe connecting traditional financial entities like banks, payment providers and corporations with emerging blockchain technologies and users is the path to an open, decentralized, and more inclusive financial future. This Internet of Value gives any internet-enabled person, application, or device access to financial services that are transparent, fast, reliable, and cheap. Delivering this vision is a challenge of a massive scale spanning $155 trillion in annual cross-border fiat payments and the $1.5 trillion market of digital assets that has grown 10X in the last year. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team building liquidity services at Ripple. Our liquidity platform and products enable businesses to offer crypto trading services to their end customers and are a key part of Ripple’s strategy to simplify access to crypto liquidity for enterprises. In this role, you will mentor other software engineers, setting and demonstrating high standards and technical excellence. As a member of a new initiative, you must be passionate about inventing and delivering customer-focused solutions to ambitious and ambiguous challenges. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Be an entrepreneurial builder, working up and down the stack, mixing software engineering, data engineering, and knowledge of machine learning deployments to jumpstart this new initiative. Deliver reliable, high-throughput, low-latency (micro)services to power-optimized decision-making at scale. Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from sculpting technical vision and software design to unit and integration testing Work with teams across the organization, including product, design, marketing, integrations, ops, customer success, legal and more Be a technical subject matter expert, provide technical leadership and share your expertise with a growing team of engineers Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 8+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 5-7+ years in Java or similar (Go, Python) and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead Experience building and deploying containerized applications (e.g. Docker) into modern distributed computing environments such as Kubernetes Experience in building transactional systems (preferably in finance/banking/e-commerce domains), backed by scalable data stores and other cloud data services to manage large, structured event data sources such as tick data Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team Ability to encourage and drive engineering best practices A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge BS in Computer Science or similar WHAT WE OFFER: The chance to work 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 Competitive salary and equity Medical, dental, and vision with 100% employer contributions for employees and dependents Industry-leading parental leave policies Generous wellness reimbursement program Employee giving donation match Brand new office in Toronto Weekly company meeting - ask me anything style discussions with our Leadership Team Team outings to sports games, happy hours, game nights and more!