About Company
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripples enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows todayan Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripples global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.
Job Description
Summary
WHAT YOULL DO:
- You will lead teammates to develop and drive forward innovative architectural solutions to improve the XRP Ledger's utility, performance, reliability, and security.
- You will be responsible for defining the corresponding future state system architecture and engineering best practices to support the ledger
- You will work across Ripple and the broader XRPL community to understand the needs of XRPL builders, and ensure we have a technical strategy to support them
- You will work as a bridge between product and engineering, ensuring that we build where the sum is greater than the parts.
- You will define and orchestrate engineering forums that will elevate engineering standards, inspire engineers and enable continuous improvements.
- You are hands on and know what it takes to build highly available, scalable, distributed systems and you cherish every opportunity to share your experience and knowledge with the engineering community.
- You have an operator mindset. You understand the value of delivering incremental value and engineering fundamentals.
- Your strength lies in the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and the ability to influence people at all levels and across organizations come natural to you.
- You love mentoring and providing guidance and assistance in the career development of others.
WHAT YOULL BRING:
- At least 12+ years experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems with at least 5+ years of experience contributing to large scale projects as an architect or as a key individual contributor.
- Expert-level experience in C++ is required.
- Experience developing and evolving distributed systems (e.g., consensus algorithms, networking, fault tolerance, observability)
- Experience crafting or contributing to the multi-year engineering roadmap of open source software.
- Experience in mentoring and growing engineers at all levels, and setting up best practices and processes for them and the company to succeed.
- Have prior experience leading software evaluation and decision making processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience presenting to broad audiences and to senior leadership.
For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicants experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
CA Annual Base Salary Range
$248,800 - $311,000 USD
Skills
- Effective communication
- Leadership
- Teamwork skills
