Senior Software Engineer, Backend

THE WORK:

As a Senior Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication & Authorisation platform team, you'll own significant parts of 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 authorisation primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

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.

• Own the design and delivery of significant components within Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, IdP integrations, and authorisation services


• Lead well-scoped projects end-to-end, making day-to-day technical decisions and bringing them to production


• Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management


• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical proposals across the team and wider engineering org


• Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to deliver platform capabilities that meet their needs


• Support the development of less experienced engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing

WHAT YOU'LL BRING: 

• Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, including building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments


• Track record of taking projects from design through to production with limited supervision


• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow


• Experience collaborating across teams and writing clear technical documentation


• Experience working on identity, authentication, or authorisation systems


• Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML


• Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorisation (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid)