Summary

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1.

You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking to optimise away manual inefficiencies.

Example projects:

The team has helped develop a number of modular building blocks

1. Low-latency Algorithms for Automated Trading and Systematic Market Making
2. Real-time streaming pipelines and signals
3. Pricing libraries and tooling
4. Venue connectivity for automated fund movement and management.

By the end of 2025 where we want to be

1. Further evolution of the Algo suite, refining the signal processing and breadth of trading strategies and products.
2. Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners.
3. Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

1. Design and build scalable, low-latency microservices and event-driven data pipelines to support high-throughput trading systems.
2. Champion data engineering best practices including schema evolution, data contracts, and data quality across event streams.
3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to model, publish, and maintain high-quality data products aligned with enterprise standards.
4. Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring solutions to ensure operational excellence.
5. Lead end-to-end software development efforts—from gathering requirements to deployment and production support.
6. Contribute to engineering excellence through mentoring, code reviews, and driving best practices.
7. Own and operate critical trading systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and alignment with business needs.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

1. 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Java or similar languages (Golang, Scala, etc.).
2. Proven track record building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems in trading or financial environments.
3. Deep understanding of data streaming, order management systems, and modern persistence technologies (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB).
4. Experience working in front-office trading environments, ideally with exposure to FX and/or crypto trading/ markets.
5. Familiarity with event-driven architecture, FIX protocol, and containerized deployments using Kubernetes or Nomad.
6. Strong grasp of agile development practices, secure software design, and scalable system architecture.
7. A collaborative mindset with the ability to mentor others and promote engineering best practices.
8. A continuous learning approach and passion for solving complex technical problems with elegant solutions.

Skills

• Development
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering