Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

THE WORK:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets in the cross-border payments space. 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.

You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking to optimize away manual inefficiencies.

The team has helped develop a number of modular building blocks

• Low-latency Algorithms for Automated Trading and Systematic Market Making
• Real-time streaming pipelines and signals
• Pricing libraries and tooling
• Venue connectivity for automated fund movement and management.

By the end of 2025 where we want to be

• Further evolution of the Algo suite, refining the signal processing and breadth of trading strategies and products.
• Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners.
• Continuing to support and complement Ripple's Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units

WHAT YOU'LL DO: 

• Be an ambitious 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 a diverse range of trading use cases
• Engage in the complete software development lifecycle by collecting requirements, showcasing solid software design principles, and maintaining operational excellence through unit and integration testing
• Be a true owner, managing and supporting Trading Engineering applications throughout product lifecycle
• 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 standard processes for coding, testing, and deployment
• Proactively identify customer and infrastructure difficulties and drive corresponding solutions.
• Mentor and support growth of junior engineers.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• 5+ years of software development with minimum 2 years in Ops or DevOps experience in trading environments, with expertise in large-scale distributed systems; recent work in Java, Go, or Scala is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) and cloud infrastructure, especially AWS; familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong CI/CD and deployment pipeline skills, with a security-first mentality and experience building scalable, robust, and secure distributed services.
• Background in front-office trading systems, ideally with exposure to FX or crypto trading; front-end experience with React or similar frameworks is a plus.
• Collaborate with the team to implement, configure, and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions - advocating for security best practices.
• Deploy, manage, operate, and scale applications and services on AWS - whilst troubleshooting performance issues across the stack.
• Collaborative, agile approach, passionate about clean architecture, continuous improvement, and engineering standard methodologies.
• Strong communication and mentorship skills, with a desire to share knowledge and work closely with a diverse and high-performing team.
• Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field is required, with a passion for solving complex problems and simplifying solutions through thoughtful experimentation.

Other common names for this role: DevOps, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer