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$212k–$265k/yr
Full-time
Physical Healthcare, Mental Healthcare, Retirement, Family Forming, Family Support, Employee Giving Match
Posted 13d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Set the architectural direction for the compliance control plane, focusing on real-time screening orchestration and vendor-agnostic integration. Lead the resolution of high-ambiguity technical problems and mentor senior engineers to raise the overall engineering bar.
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of experience building production backend systems with deep expertise in JVM languages, Go, or Rust. Must have a proven track record of owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale within regulated environments.
Full job description
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:
Ripple is building the Internet of Value: infrastructure that moves money as fast as information moves today. Every payment that flows across our network passes through real-time financial crimes controls: sanctions screening, wallet risk analysis, transaction monitoring, and travel rule compliance. The Financial Crimes Engineering team builds and operates that layer.
This is the engineering that determines whether payments clear or hold, whether Ripple meets its regulatory obligations across jurisdictions, and whether the network can scale without compromising on compliance. The problem space is genuinely hard: high-throughput distributed systems, real-time decisioning, multi-source coordination across external compliance data providers, regulator-grade audit trails, and resilience.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you'll set technical direction for that platform. You'll own the architecture of the compliance control plane: the vendor-agnostic, resilient, provable system that lets Ripple move value without moving financial crime, and you'll drive its evolution across Ripple's product lines. This is a role for someone who operates beyond individual services: you'll define the technical strategy others build against, anticipate where the platform needs to go before it's asked, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane: real-time screening orchestration, the resilience and observability layer, vendor-agnostic integration, and the decision/data plane, designing for where the platform needs to be across future jurisdictions and product surfaces, not just today's requirements
Drive the hardest, highest-ambiguity technical problems end to end: 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, with milestones and clear execution plans
Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints before they become incidents, and lead the initiatives that address them
Partner directly with senior leaders to align complex cross-functional objectives and shape how regulatory requirements become engineering reality
Set standards for production ownership: observability, alerting, incident response, and raise the reliability bar for the whole team
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevate design quality across the team, and act as a technical multiplier: the engineer whose presence makes everyone around them better
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
8+ years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust)
A track record of owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale, not just building within an existing design, but defining the design others build against
Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction across teams and influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate scope
Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC) and the ability to establish patterns others adopt
Proven skill navigating ambiguity in a regulated environment, turning regulator findings, audit obligations, and partner asks into shippable, durable engineering plans
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
A history of mentoring engineers and lifting the technical bar of a team
Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology is a strong plus, though exceptional systems architects from adjacent high-stakes domains are welcome
WHY THIS ROLE
Consequence: your architecture decides whether real payments clear, in real time, for real customers.
Ownership at the platform level: you're not owning a service, you're shaping the control plane every Ripple product depends on.
Building the next generation: we're actively designing the vendor-agnostic, resilient compliance platform built to scale across new jurisdictions and product surfaces. This is the person who leads that design.
Cross-functional weight: you'll work daily with senior leaders across the company. The job is technical, but the influence is organizational.
Technical leadership without leaving the code: the senior-most IC voice on a team where the engineering genuinely matters.
Other common names for this role:
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$212,000—$265,000 USD
WHO WE ARE:
Do Your Best Work
The opportunity to build 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. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
Take Control of Your Finances
Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
Employee giving match
Mobile phone stipend
Take Care of Yourself
R&R days so you can rest and recharge
Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
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.
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue.
Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.
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