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About the Role
Ripple is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction and own the architecture of the compliance control plane. This role involves driving the evolution of a vendor-agnostic, resilient system that prevents financial crime and ensures regulatory compliance across Ripple's product lines. It's an opportunity to define technical strategy, anticipate platform needs, and elevate engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane, including real-time screening orchestration, resilience and observability, vendor-agnostic integration, and the decision/data plane.
- Design for future jurisdictional and product surface requirements.
- Drive complex, ambiguous technical problems end-to-end, such as multi-vendor failover, sub-second decisioning under load, regulator-grade auditability, and resilience across partial dependency failures.
- Translate evolving regulatory obligations and organizational goals into durable engineering primitives and a sequenced technical roadmap.
- Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints and lead initiatives to address them.
- Partner with senior leaders to align complex cross-functional objectives.
- Shape how regulatory requirements become engineering reality.
- Set standards for production ownership, including observability, alerting, incident response, and reliability.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
- Elevate design quality across the team.
- Act as a technical multiplier, improving the capabilities of those around you.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust).
- Track record of owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction across teams and influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate scope.
- Strong resilience and distributed-systems design instincts (failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, high-throughput real-time decisioning).
- Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC) and ability to establish patterns.
- Proven skill navigating ambiguity in a regulated environment.
- Ability to turn regulator findings, audit obligations, and partner asks into shippable, durable engineering plans.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- History of mentoring engineers and lifting the technical bar of a team.
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology is a strong plus.
- Exceptional systems architects from adjacent high-stakes domains are welcome.
Skills
- Java
- JVM languages
- Go
- Rust
- Distributed systems architecture
- API design (REST/gRPC)
- Kubernetes
- Observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- Mentoring engineers
- Resilience
- Failover
- Graceful degradation
- Idempotency
- High-throughput real-time decisioning
Location
- California
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $212,000—$265,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages
- Fun events
About the Company
- Ripple is building the Internet of Value, an infrastructure that moves money as fast as information moves today.
- We are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity.
- We offer the opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders.
- We provide a learning environment where employees can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.
- We offer a professional development budget to support learning.
- We foster an environment where every employee is respected, valued, and empowered.
- In-office collaboration for important moments is part of our culture, with flexibility for managers and teams to decide on in-office days (10+ days a month).
- We hold bi-weekly all-company meetings with business updates and an Ask Me Anything session with the Leadership Team.
- We come together for team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and more.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
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