Staff Software Engineer, Liquidity Management

About the role

The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pioneer and scale Ripple Treasury’s core platform into the future. You will work with a small, hardworking, and awesome development team, whom you will help to catch a whale on a fishing line and feed the village. If you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment, this might be the right role for you!

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions for the platform, balancing scalability, maintainability, and rapid deployment goals.
• Establish technical standards and design patterns that enable the team to ship features faster with fewer defects.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide constructive feedback that elevates the team's architectural thinking.
• Identify and eliminate technical debt strategically, creating roadmaps that improve both developer velocity and system reliability.
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles.
• Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team.
• Establish coding standards, review practices, and testing strategies that improve overall code quality.
• Champion engineering best practices including observability, incident response, and production excellence.
• Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies, engage with tech communities, mentor fellow engineers, and lead in technical design and code evaluations.
• Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate across distributed teams (Ireland, U.S., Philippines, Australia) to drive alignment on technical approaches.
• Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities that create competitive advantages.
• Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value, helping the team prioritize high-impact work.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle that slow down the entire team.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and deployment processes to increase velocity.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity.
• Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities.
• Anticipate future scalability challenges before they become blockers (e.g., handling 10x growth in transaction volume).
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend when/how to adopt them (e.g., new ML frameworks, database technologies).
• Design systems that support the 90-day implementation promise while maintaining enterprise-grade quality.
• Balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery, knowing when "good enough now" beats "perfect later."

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years working on complex, business-critical systems in production.
• Experience working on products with significant scale.
• Strong communication skills with experience working in cross-functional projects.
• Track record of delivering projects that span multiple quarters and require coordination across teams.
• System Ownership: Owned and evolved significant portions of a production system end-to-end.
• Been on-call for production systems and handled critical incidents.
• Led technical designs that were implemented by teams of 3+ engineers.
• Made architectural decisions that had lasting impact on system capabilities.
• Technical Leadership: Mentored 2+ engineers to help them level up technically.
• Established technical patterns that were adopted across the team.
• Led technical spikes to evaluate new technologies or approaches.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Knowledge of observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies.
• Experience with microservices deployment patterns and service mesh concepts.
• Enterprise Software Patterns: Deep understanding of distributed systems patterns, even driven architectures, and message queues.
• Multi-tenancy architecture and data isolation strategies.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise with C#/.NET.
• Expert in relational databases (SQL Server ideally), including query optimization, indexing strategies, and data modeling.
• Deep experience in building large scale multi-tenant applications.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and understanding when to use alternative patterns (GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks).
• Deep knowledge in building applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and related technologies.

Skills

• Understanding of financial concepts: cash positioning, forecasting, liquidity management.
• Knowledge of banking systems, payment rails, and financial data formats (e.g. MT940, BAI2).
• Awareness of financial compliance and regulatory requirements (SOC 2, data privacy).
• Experience integrating with third-party financial systems (banks, ERPs, payment processors).

Benefits

For positions that will be based in NY, 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.

NY Annual Base Salary Range: $196,000 USD - $245,000 USD