Senior Software Engineer, Payments – Ripple

Title of the Job: Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: THE WORK:Are you a highly skilled and passionate software engineer looking for an exciting new challenge? Join Ripple and help redefine the way we send and receive payments globally! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build enterprise-level payment applications that enable banks to settle cross-border payments instantly, securely, and efficiently.We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Reporting team in RippleNet Payments to build solutions that provide customers with best in class experience in financial operations and Payments deporting. You will join a Core data team, working alongside data analytics and science experts to build intelligent systems that support data driven decision making.We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. You will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1.WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Be an entrepreneurial builder, working up and down the stack, mixing software engineering, data engineering, and distributed systems knowledge to build modern enterprise payment applications.
• Build reliable, high-throughput, low-latency microservices to power seamless cross border transactions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle by gathering requirements, leveraging sound software design principles, and ensuring operational excellence with unit & integration testing, and by ownership of monitoring and resolution of production issues
• Work with teams across the organization, including product, legal, and business development to think beyond the technical implications of your design decisions
• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
• Proactively identify customer and infrastructure pain points and drive corresponding solutions.
• Mentor and support growth of junior engineers.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• Proficient in Java (or similar language): Ability to develop, optimize, and maintain robust and scalable reporting services using Java and the Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of NoSQL or similar databases is a plus for designing, implementing, and managing reporting data models and has keen understanding of db performance.
• Understanding of distributed systems: Knowledge of distributed systems concepts and best practices to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for micro/macro-services.
• Operational Excellence – Demonstrable experience supporting production systems – using observability best practices to drive data-driven decisions in understanding scale and resilience bottlenecks.
• Experience in building transactional systems backed by modern persistence technologies (Postgres, Aurora, DynamoDB etc.)
• Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications into modern distributed computing environments (Gitlab CI, Kubernetes, Argo etc.)
• Familiarity with Databricks or other Data warehouse or Data lake platforms
• Experience driving long-term cross team engineering initiatives
• Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security best practices
• Eagerness to work openly and collaboratively with a diverse team
• Ability to encourage and drive engineering best practices
• A positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
• Preferred Data management and analytics experiences in related financial services domain.
• BS in Computer Science or similar

Company Name: Ripple

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