Ripples mission is to enable payments every way, everywhere for everyone. We believe connecting traditional financial entities like banks, payment providers & corporations with emerging blockchain technologies & users is the path to an open, decentralized, & 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, & cheap. Delivering this vision is a challenge of massive scale spanning $155 trillion in annual cross border fiat payments & 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 a growing team charged with determining & delivering optimal liquidity for every customer in the world in a cost-effective, robust & scalable manner. You will work closely with applied scientists & machine learning engineers to build robust solutions that power our liquidity services at scale. You will mentor other software engineers, setting & demonstrating high standards & technical excellence. As a member of a new initiative, you must be passionate about inventing & delivering customer-focused solutions to ambitious & ambiguous challenges.

This position can be based in Toronto, New York City, or Remote.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Be an entrepreneurial builder, working up & down the stack, mixing software  engineering, data engineering, & 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, & ensuring operational excellence with unit & integration testing
• Work with teams across the organization, including product, finance, legal, integrations, ops, customer success, & more 
• Own your solution, from design to productionization, ensuring the best experience for Ripples customers in how they interact with your solutions
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing & driving best practices for coding, testing, & deployment

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

• 2-5 years of hands-on Software Development experience on large scale distributed systems, with recent experience in Java or similar (Go, Python) 
• Experience building & 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 an scalable data stores & 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 & security
• Eagerness to work openly & collaboratively with a diverse team
• Ability to encourage & drive engineering best practices
• A positive attitude & 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 & make an impact
• Competitive salary & equity
• 100% paid medical & dental & 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day
• 401k (with match), commuter benefits
• Industry-leading parental leave policies
• Generous wellness reimbursement & weekly onsite programs
• Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Employee giving match
• The chance to be one of Ripples founding Toronto team members
• Fully-stocked kitchen with organic snacks, beverages, & coffee drinks
• Weekly company meeting - ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• Team outings to sports games, happy hours, game nights & more!

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 & make an impact
• Competitive salary & equity
• Medical, dental, & vision with 100% employer contributions for employees & 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 & more!