# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes at Ripple

- Company: Ripple
- What the company does: Ripple is the leading provider of stablecoin-powered cross-border payments and digital asset custody solutions. Discover how we’re driving impact with blockchain. Backed by a16z, GV and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://ripple.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://ripple.com/careers/all-jobs/job/8178722?gh_jid=8178722
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ripple-senior-staff-software-engineer-financial-crimes/

## About the role

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

## What they're looking for

- Drive the hardest, highest-ambiguity technical problems end to end: multi-vendor failover, sub-second decisioning under load, regulator-grade auditability, and resilience across partial dependency failures
- Translate evolving regulatory obligations and organizational goals into durable engineering primitives and a sequenced technical roadmap, and influence what the organization invests in to get there
- Anticipate platform risks and scaling constraints years before they become incidents, and lead the initiatives that address them
- Set standards for production ownership across the team and beyond: observability, alerting, incident response, and the reliability bar that other teams calibrate against
- Multiply the technical capability of the organization: mentor staff and senior engineers, elevate design quality through architecture review, and raise the ceiling of what the team can take on

Tags: Engineering