Senior Software Engineer, Authentication & Authorisation (Backend)

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication & Authorisation platform team, you'll own significant parts of how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products. Our products have grown up using different identity providers and protocols, and we're now bringing them together into a unified, consistent experience — while also building the fine-grained authorisation primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the design and delivery of significant components within Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, IdP integrations, and authorisation services.
• Lead well-scoped projects end-to-end, making day-to-day technical decisions and bringing them to production.
• Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical proposals across the team and wider engineering org.
• Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to deliver platform capabilities that meet their needs.
• Support the development of less experienced engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Track record of taking projects from design through to production with limited supervision.
• Hands‑on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day‑to‑day engineering workflow.
• Experience collaborating across teams and writing clear technical documentation.
• Experience working on identity, authentication, or authorisation systems.
• Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML.
• Experience with policy‑as‑code approaches to authorisation (attribute‑based, relationship‑based, or hybrid).

WHO WE ARE

• The opportunity to build in a fast‑paced start‑up environment with experienced industry leaders.
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.
• A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In‑office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi‑weekly all‑company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team.
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• 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.

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge.
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming.
• Generous vacation policy – work with your manager to take time off when you need it.
• Industry‑leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully‑stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events.

Benefits listed above are for full‑time employees. Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.