What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer, C++ position at Ripple?
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.
If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.
THE WORK :
RippleX is dedicated to empowering the builders of tomorrow on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), one of the world's fastest and most reliable public blockchains. We believe in democratizing the digital economy by providing practical support, empowering a community of developers, and offering the expertise of a visionary technology company.
The XRPL is a decentralized, public blockchain led by a global community of businesses and developers looking to solve problems and create value. Proven reliable over more than a decade of operation and closing over 90 million ledger, the XRPL offers streamlined development, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. We are looking for senior engineering talent to help us maintain this high technical bar, while building innovative solutions to ensure the XRPL can power the growing needs of the global digital economy. Ideal candidates will have a track record of defining a technical vision, but also developing the incremental path to get from here to there and bringing others along on the journey.
WHAT YOU'LL DO :
- Increase the capabilities, performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the XRP ledger.
- You keep an eye on the industry evolution in the blockchain and crypto world and ensure the XRPL is poised to meet the needs of blockchain developers.
- Work across RippleX and the broader XRPL community to understand the requirements of XRPL builders, and implement the technical strategy to support them.
- You are hands-on and know what is needed 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 attitude. You understand the value of delivering incremental value and engineering fundamentals.
- Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving standard methodologies for architecture, coding, testing, and deployment.
- Actively participate in code reviews to maintain the high quality of our codebase.
- You love mentoring and providing guidance and assistance in the career development of others.
- Your strength lies in the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and influence people around you comes natural to you.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING :
Other common names for this role : C Developer
For positions that will be based in NY, 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.
NY Annual Base Salary Range
216,000-$243,000 USD
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Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
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Salary : $216,000 - $243,000
