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Staff Software Engineer in USA new

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services for customer onboarding.
  • Design scalable orchestration, data flows, APIs, service layers, and persistence systems.
  • Migrate onboarding logic from Salesforce into resilient, observable engineering-owned services.
  • Build platform capabilities that reduce customer touchpoints while preserving trust and compliance.
  • Contribute to data modeling for Ripple’s future identity platform.
  • Partner with Product, Compliance, and Engineering teams to influence company-wide technical direction.
  • Champion code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers and help grow a lean, high-impact team.

Requirements

  • Deep backend engineering experience with modern, cloud-native distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and delivering large-scale systems in complex environments.
  • Strong API design and integration skills using REST and/or gRPC.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and container orchestration using Kubernetes or ECS.
  • Willingness to work with frontend frameworks such as React or Vue for full-stack capability.
  • Ability to navigate and reduce technical debt while delivering business value.
  • Leadership skills to set technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence cross-team decisions.
  • Preferred experience with Java and Spring Boot.
  • Candidates with Go, Kotlin, C#, Python, or Rust backend experience are also considered if they can learn JVM technologies quickly.
  • Preferred experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka, SNS, or SQS.
  • Fintech, regtech, KYC/KYB, identity verification, or compliance-heavy systems experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $212,000–$265,000 USD for positions based in California, excluding equity and additional compensation.
  • Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
  • Competitive bonuses and equity.
  • Professional development budget, employee giving match, and mobile phone stipend.
  • R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, wellness programming, parental leave, and family-planning benefits.
  • Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and other company events.
  • In-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees come in.
  • Benefits listed are for full-time employees.

Salary: $212k - $265k/yr

Ripple

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...

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