Senior Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes
Ripple · San Francisco, CA, United States
Posted 13 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 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
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Ripple 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Ripple .
About this role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Financial Crimes Engineering team at Ripple, you will lead the architectural vision for compliance systems that ensure regulatory obligations are met while facilitating real-time transactions. Your role involves driving complex technical solutions, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating with executive leadership to shape the future of compliance engineering across the organization.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Ripple as an employer.
What you need
- 12+ years building production backend systems
- Deep expertise in Java (or comparable JVM languages, Go, Rust)
- Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems at scale
- Ability to set technical direction at the organizational level
- Strong resilience and distributed-systems design instincts
- Excellent API design judgment (REST/gRPC)
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, identity, or compliance technology
What you get
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days for rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options, though there is flexibility in office attendance
- The role involves high responsibility with significant influence over compliance architecture
- The position requires navigating complex regulatory environments which may add pressure
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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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