Staff Software Engineer

RippleUK3w ago

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About the role

<div class="content-intro">At Ripple, we're building a world where value moves like information does today. It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it. 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. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.&nbsp; If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</div><div> THE WORK: As a Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication and Authorization platform team, you'll help shape how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products. The listing location is London, UK.

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Location: UK

What you'll do

<div class="content-intro">At Ripple, we're building a world where value moves like information does today.
It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it.
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.
And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.&nbsp; If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</div><div> THE WORK: As a Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication and Authorization platform team, you'll help shape how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products.
Our products have grown up using different identity providers and protocols, and we're now bringing them together into a unified, consistent experience - while also building the fine-grained authorization primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day. HOW WE WORK: AI tooling is core to how our team works day-to-day - coding assistants, LLM-based workflows, and agentic tools across design, development, and operations.
We're looking for people who already use these fluently, not just curious about them. WHAT YOU'LL DO: <ul> <li>Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation</li> <li>Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio</li> <li>Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management</li> <li>Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities</li> <li>Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org</li> <li>Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design feedback, and collaboration</li> </ul> </div> <div> WHAT YOU'LL BRING:&nbsp; </div> <div> <ul> <li>Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments</li> <li>Experience designing or contributing to identity systems, ideally in a multi-tenant or federated context</li> <li>Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow</li> <li>Experience collaborating across teams and writing design documents that build alignment</li> </ul> NICE TO HAVE: <ul> <li>Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, and how they behave in production</li> <li>Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorization (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid)</li> </ul> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> WHO WE ARE: Do Your Best Work <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.&nbsp; A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">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.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</s

Requirements

Our products have grown up using different identity providers and protocols, and we're now bringing them together into a unified, consistent experience - while also building the fine-grained authorization primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day. HOW WE WORK: AI tooling is core to how our team works day-to-day - coding assistants, LLM-based workflows, and agentic tools across design, development, and operations.
We're looking for people who already use these fluently, not just curious about them. WHAT YOU'LL DO: <ul> <li>Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation</li> <li>Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio</li> <li>Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management</li> <li>Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities</li> <li>Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org</li> <li>Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design feedback, and collaboration</li> </ul> </div> <div> WHAT YOU'LL BRING:&nbsp; </div> <div> <ul> <li>Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments</li> <li>Experience designing or contributing to identity systems, ideally in a multi-tenant or federated context</li> <li>Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow</li> <li>Experience collaborating across teams and writing design documents that build alignment</li> </ul> NICE TO HAVE: <ul> <li>Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, and how they behave in production</li> <li>Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorization (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid)</li> </ul> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> WHO WE ARE: Do Your Best Work <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.&nbsp; A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">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.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</s

About Ripple

Do Your Best Work 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.

Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.