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

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. 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.

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. Creating technical software excellence and spearheading application development in design, implementation, and maintenance.

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; 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.
• 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.
• Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies, engage with tech communities, mentor fellow engineers, and lead in technical design and code evaluations.

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.
• Make tough technical trade-off decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning.

What You’ll Work On:

• Core platform modernization — rebuilding the platform from the ground up.
• Real-time cash/liquidity data pipelines — building systems that give treasury professionals real-time transparency into cash and liquidity positions.
• Digital asset support — engineering first-class support for both traditional fiat currencies and digital assets.
• AI features — developing and optimizing machine learning models for the GSmart AI engine.

Years & Scope:

• 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.
• 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.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.

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.
• 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.

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.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.