Ripple

Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Ripple · San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted 22 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
22 days
Ripple 's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Ripple 's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Ripple
high
84 stale, 2 reposted of 128 open
Hiring momentum
185 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Ripple, you will develop enterprise-level payment applications to enhance cross-border payment processes for financial institutions. Your role involves collaborating with engineers and multi-functional teams to prototype and implement solutions, while providing mentorship and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. You will leverage your expertise in backend systems, distributed architectures, and API design to drive technical delivery and influence decisions across teams.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, with a deep focus on backend systems
  • Deep, hands-on backend engineering experience building and operating modern, cloud-native, and highly-available distributed systems
  • Proven track record designing and delivering complex features within large-scale systems in complex, regulated environments
  • Strong skills in API design and integration (e.g., REST and/or gRPC)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Ability to tactically navigate and reduce technical debt while driving significant business value and managing feature-level migration efforts

Nice to have

  • Experience with our current stack: Java + Spring Boot
  • Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.)

What you get

  • 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
  • R&R days to rest and recharge
  • Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work policy beyond in-office collaboration
  • Salary range provided but may vary based on individual qualifications
  • Stack includes legacy technologies, but openness to other stacks is encouraged

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Listed by Ripple on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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