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Staff Software Engineer

Ripple · San Francisco, CA, United States · On-site

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About Ripple

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.

About the role

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value. If you’re a Staff-level engineer who thrives on modernizing fragile systems, building robust services around vendor integrations, and driving architecture at company-wide scale, this is your opportunity. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Lead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services that power onboarding across Ripple’s product suite
  • Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines
  • Migrate core onboarding logic out of Salesforce into resilient, observable services and a dedicated persistence layer
  • Build platform capabilities that enable faster onboarding with fewer customer touchpoints — while preserving trust and compliance
  • Contribute to foundational data modeling work that will feed into Ripple’s future identity platform (while ownership of Identity will move to a dedicated team)
  • Champion engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and operational practices
More about this role

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

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

At Ripple, the Customer Onboarding Platform is where every customer’s journey begins — and it’s about to get a full-scale rebuild.

We recently became a horizontal platform team serving all Ripple products. Our next chapter:

  • Unwinding years of Salesforce-bound logic into modern, engineering-owned backend services.
  • Integrating best-in-class vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB, while building the surrounding orchestration, data flows, and service layer.
  • Designing the systems and data model that will make onboarding scalable, observable, and reliable across products.

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