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Our next chapter:\nUnwinding years of Salesforce-bound logic into modern, engineering-owned backend services.\nIntegrating best-in-class vendors like Persona for KYC/KYB, while building the surrounding orchestration, data flows, and service layer.\nDesigning the systems and data model that will make onboarding scalable, observable, and reliable across products.\nIf you’re a Staff-level engineer who thrives on modernizing fragile systems, building robust services around vendor integrations, and driving architecture at company-wide scale, this is your opportunity.\nWhy This Role Matters:\nOnboarding is where customers form their first impression of Ripple, and where trust is earned. As the technical anchor for a small, high-impact team, you will:\nBuild for impact - Everything you create will serve multiple Ripple products, from Payments to Custody to Stablecoin.\nStart from zero - Design and build new backend services from the ground up to power onboarding across products.\nTackle the hard stuff - Unwind years of technical debt while designing systems built to last.\nShape Ripple’s architecture - Partner with Product, Compliance, and Engineering to influence company-wide technical direction.\nScale the right way - Mentor engineers and grow a high-performing team, with direct executive backing.\nThis isn’t just about writing code, it’s about designing how Ripple’s onboarding platform will work for years to come.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\nLead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services that power onboarding across Ripple’s product suite.\nPartner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines.\nMigrate core onboarding logic out of Salesforce into resilient, observable services and a dedicated persistence layer.\nBuild platform capabilities that enable faster onboarding with fewer customer touchpoints - while preserving trust and compliance.\nContribute to foundational data modeling work that will feed into Ripple’s future identity platform (while ownership of Identity will move to a dedicated team).\nChampion engineering excellence in code quality, testing, and operational practices.\nMentor engineers and help grow a lean, high-impact team. \nWHAT YOU'LL BRING: \nRequired\nDeep backend engineering experience in modern, cloud-native, distributed systems.\nExposure and willingness to frontend frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) for full-stack capability.\nProven track record designing and delivering large-scale systems in complex environments.\nStrong API design and integration skills (REST and/or gRPC).\nExperience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).\nComfort navigating and reducing technical debt while delivering business value.\nLeadership skills: can set technical direction, mentor others, and influence cross-team decisions.\nPreferred (But Not Required)\nExperience with our current stack: Java + Spring Boot.\nWe welcome candidates from other backend stacks (Go, Kotlin, C#, Python, Rust, etc.) who can quickly learn JVM technologies.\nEvent-driven architecture (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.).\nDomain knowledge in fintech, regtech, KYC/KYB, identity verification, or compliance-heavy systems.\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here:\nImpact: The systems you build will be used across all Ripple products, touching every new customer.\nTechnical Challenge: You’ll lead a high-leverage migration and design work that matters.\nGrowth: Opportunity to shape a horizontal platform team from the ground up.\nCollaboration: Partner with sharp, motivated colleagues across engineering, product, and compliance.\nIf you want to help replace a fragile, business-critical system with a scalable platform that will serve every Ripple customer for years to come, we’d love to talk.\nOther common names for this role: \nFor 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 applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions. \nCA Annual Base Salary Range\n$212,000—$265,000 USD\nWHO WE ARE:\nDo Your Best Work\nThe opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders\nA 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.\nThrive 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.\nIn-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. \nBi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team\nWe come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!\nTake Control of Your Finances\nCompetitive salary, bonuses, and equity\nCompetitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support\nEmployee giving match\nMobile phone stipend\nTake Care of Yourself\nR&R days so you can rest and recharge\nGenerous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming\nGenerous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it\nIndustry-leading parental leave policies. 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