Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</span></p></div><div><strong>Role Overview</strong></div> <div><br>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.</div> <div><br>If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.</div> <div><br>As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Engineering team, you are a core builder of the Caspian Data Platform — Ripple's centralized lakehouse that powers analytics, financial reporting, product intelligence, and data-driven operations across every business unit. You own the design and delivery of production-grade pipelines end to end. You raise the engineering bar for the team through code reviews, technical design, and mentorship. You operate with high autonomy on complex, cross-functional data initiatives and bring sound judgment to tradeoffs around performance, cost, reliability, and maintainability.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>What you'll do</strong></div> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate production ETL pipelines on Databricks using Delta Live Tables and Spark, applying medallion architecture patterns across Finance, Payments, Product, and GTM domains.</li> <li>Own data modeling in different layers — defining governed, reusable table structures that serve as reliable sources of truth for business metrics and downstream consumption.</li> <li>Drive technical design for projects spanning multiple teams, writing clear design documents that articulate architecture, tradeoffs, and rollout plans.</li> <li>Build pipeline observability into your work — failure detection, alerting, retry logic, and the operational hygiene that keeps oncall burden low.</li> <li>Integrate AI tooling into data workflows: agentic systems for pipeline triage, automated code generation for transformations, and natural language interfaces for data access.</li> <li>Mentor engineers, reviewing their code and designs and helping them grow into more complex ownership.</li> <li>Contribute to platform infrastructure through Terraform, and work with Unity Catalog to establish data contracts, access controls, and lineage.</li> </ul> <div><strong>What you'll bring</strong></div> <ul> <li>5–8 years of hands-on data engineering experience building and maintaining production pipelines and data models.</li> <li>Deep proficiency with Databricks or similar platforms — Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and PySpark or Spark SQL as primary tools.</li> <li>Strong SQL skills: complex transformations, incremental materialization, schema evolution, and data quality validation.</li> <li>Solid AWS experience relevant to building and operating data systems at scale.</li> <li>Proficiency in Python for data engineering — ingestion, transformation, testing, and utility tooling.</li> <li>Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitLab and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.</li> <li>Exposure to AI tooling in a data context — whether building agents, using LLMs for code generation, or enabling self-serve analytics workflows.</li> <li>The ability to take ambiguous requirements, define the right data model and pipeline design, and deliver with minimal oversight.</li> </ul> <div><strong>Nice to have</strong></div> <ul> <li>Familiarity with financial, payments, or blockchain data.</li> <li>Experience with Fivetran or similar ingestion tools and their operational patterns.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> <p><strong>WHO WE ARE:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Your Best Work</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span 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.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span 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.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span 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;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Control of Your Finances</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employee giving match</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mobile phone stipend</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Care of Yourself</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">R&amp;R days so you can rest and recharge</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite &amp; virtual programming</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.&nbsp;</em></span></p> <hr> <div><em>Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Please find our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/eu-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">UK/EU Applicant Privacy Notice </a>and our <a href="https://ripple.com/legal/ca-applicant-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">California Applicant Privacy Notice</a> for reference.</em></div> <div><hr></div></div>

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