Staff Software Engineer, Liquidity Management (C#/.NET) in London

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The mission is to pioneer and scale Ripple Treasury's liquidity platform into the future. If you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment this might be the right role for you! We are seeking an innovative and forward-thinking Staff Software Developer passionate about building a world-class platform through a world-class team.

About the Liquidity Management Team: The Liquidity Management team is at the forefront of a major modernization initiative, reimagining how enterprise treasury teams manage liquidity across a global landscape. We're not just maintaining what exists — we're rebuilding from the ground up with a bold vision: a modern, intuitive user experience with fast, streamlined workflows that make complex treasury operations feel effortless; a cloud-native architecture built on the latest technologies, designed for scalability, resilience, and speed; and first-class support for both traditional fiat currencies and digital assets.

What You’ll Do:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Drive architectural decisions for the platform, balancing scalability, maintainability, and rapid deployment goals. Establish technical standards and design patterns that enable the team to ship features faster with fewer defects. Lead technical design reviews and provide constructive feedback that elevates the team's architectural thinking. Identify and eliminate technical debt strategically, creating roadmaps that improve both developer velocity and system reliability.
• Team Enablement & Mentorship: Mentor mid-level and senior engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles. Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team. Establish coding standards, review practices, and testing strategies that improve overall code quality. Champion engineering methodologies including observability, incident response, and production excellence.
• Enhance Agility: Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity. Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities.
• Strategic Technical Vision: Anticipate future scalability challenges before they become blockers. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend when/how to adopt them. Balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.
• Ownership & Accountability: Own critical systems end-to-end, from design through production support. Take responsibility for production reliability and proactively prevent incidents. Step into ambiguous situations and drive them to resolution without needing explicit direction. Lead by example in code quality, documentation, and operational excellence.

What You’ll Work On:

• Core platform modernization — rebuilding the platform from the ground up: a modern, intuitive UX with fast workflows, and a cloud-native architecture designed for scalability, resilience, and speed.
• Real-time cash/liquidity data pipelines — building systems that give treasury professionals real-time transparency into cash and liquidity positions across banks, accounts, currencies, and legal entities worldwide.
• Digital asset support — engineering first-class support for both traditional fiat currencies and digital assets as part of the platform's forward-looking vision.
• AI features — developing and optimizing machine learning models for the GSmart AI engine that predicts cash flows and enables businesses to balance accounts in real time while making complex funding decisions.

Essential Knowledge / Experience:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years working on complex, business-critical systems in production.
• Experience working on products with significant scale.
• Strong communication skills with experience working in cross functional projects.
• Track record of delivering projects that span multiple quarters and require coordination across teams.

Technical Leadership:

• Led technical designs that were implemented by teams of 3+ engineers.
• Made architectural decisions that had lasting impact on system capabilities.
• Established technical patterns that were adopted across the team.

Cloud & Infrastructure:

• Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (preferably Azure).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Knowledge of observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies.
• Experience with microservices deployment patterns and service mesh concepts.

Core Technologies:

• Deep expertise with C#/.NET.
• Expert in relational databases (SQL Server ideally), including query optimization, indexing strategies, and data modeling.
• Deep experience in building large scale multi-tenant enterprise applications.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and understanding when to use alternative patterns (GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks).
• Deep knowledge in building applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and related technologies.