Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Set architectural direction for the compliance control plane: real-time screening orchestration, resilience/observability layer, vendor-agnostic integration
• ▹Drive the hardest, highest-ambiguity problems end to end: multi-vendor failover, sub-second decisioning under load, regulator-grade auditability
• ▹Translate evolving regulatory obligations and organizational goals into durable engineering primitives and a sequenced roadmap
• ▹Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints before they become incidents
• ▹Partner with senior leaders to align complex cross-functional objectives
• ▹Set standards for production ownership: observability, alerting, incident response
• ▹Mentor senior and mid-level engineers

Requirements

• ▹8+ years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust)
• ▹Track record owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale
• ▹Demonstrated ability to drive technical direction and influence across teams
• ▹Strong resilience and distributed-systems design instincts: failover, graceful degradation, idempotency, high-throughput real-time decisioning
• ▹Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC)
• ▹Proven skill navigating regulated environments, turning audit findings into shippable engineering plans
• ▹Working knowledge of Kubernetes, observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• ▹History of mentoring engineers

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• ▹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
• ▹Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, and events

About the company

Ripple is building the Internet of Value through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers, aiming to make value move as fast as information does today and create greater economic fairness worldwide.