Ripple is undertaking a full-scale rebuild of its Customer Onboarding Platform, aiming to modernize systems by unwinding years of Salesforce-bound logic into modern, engineering-owned backend services, integrating best-in-class vendors, and designing scalable, observable, and reliable systems for onboarding across all Ripple products.
Requirements
- Deep backend engineering experience in modern, cloud-native, distributed systems.
- Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale systems in complex environments.
- Strong API design and integration skills (REST and/or gRPC).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
- Comfort navigating and reducing technical debt while delivering business value.
- Leadership skills: can set technical direction, mentor others, and influence cross-team decisions.
- Experience with our current stack: Java + Spring Boot. We welcome candidates from other backend stacks (Go, Kotlin, C, Python, Rust, etc.) who can quickly learn JVM technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services that power onboarding across Ripple’s product suite.
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines.
- Migrate core onboarding logic out of Salesforce into resilient, observable services and a dedicated persistence layer.
- Build platform capabilities that enable faster onboarding with fewer customer touchpoints — while preserving trust and compliance.
- Contribute to foundational data modeling work that will feed into Ripple’s future identity platform (while ownership of Identity will move to a dedicated team).
- Champion engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and help grow a lean, high-impact team.
Other
- 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 no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, 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
