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Software Engineer

Ripple · London, UK · $106k - $150k

Actively hiring Posted over 2 years ago

Role overview

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:

What you'll work on

  • 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 by gathering requirements, leveraging sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit & integration testing
  • Work with teams across the organization, including product, design, marketing, integrations, ops, customer success, legal and more 
  • Own your solution, from design to production, ensuring the best experience for Ripple’s customers in how they interact with your solutions
  • Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

What we're looking for

  • 2-5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 1-2+ years in Java or similar (Go, C++), experience owning features or components preferred
  • 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

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