Senior Software Engineer - Node.js | Ripple Labs | San Francisco, CA | REDACTED_EMAIL
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Our Mission:
Enable the world to move value like information moves today.
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About Ripple Labs:
Ripple Labs is a 60+ person seed-stage startup backed by prominent investors such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. We developed Ripple (www.github.com/ripple/ripped), an open-source, distributed payments protocol that enables the exchange of value in any currency, instantly and for free. Ripple Labs focuses on improving the core protocol and building tools for developers and enterprise financial services firms to use Ripple as settlement infrastructure for real-time payments. Ripple’s distributed ledger can accommodate any store of value, including dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins, and even loyalty points, making it the world’s first distributed currency exchange.
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The Senior Software Engineer will design and build server-side applications that will allow our current and future partners to integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Ripple Labs is a pioneer in using object-oriented Javascript to build scaling applications for utilizing cryptocurrency protocols, and we’re looking for someone who can bring out the best in our developers to continue this thought leadership.
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You will:
Design and build Node.js applications for partners and our open-source community
Use tools like redis, nginx, postgres, resque, websockets, zeromq, couchdb, aws and others to build enterprise-grade open-source financial software.
Work closely with our Integration team on partner requirements and compatibility
Build RESTful APIs (github.com/ripple/ripple-rest) for submitting payments and monitoring accounts on the Ripple network
Contribute crypto-currency and financial system plugins to gatewayd (github.com/ripple/gatewayd)
Contribute to ripple-lib (github.com/ripple/ripple-lib), our JS library for connecting to the rippled server locally and remotely
Hone your test-driven development skills as part of a classy and focused engineering team
Share our approach and principles with developer communities both in San Francisco and worldwide
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Your background:
Experience building scalable server applications
We don’t discriminate by language but you could have built large-scale server applications in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django), Java (Spring and Strut)
More broadly we seek professional engineering experience in a diverse set of languages and understanding of engineering concepts:
Object-oriented and classical inheritance paradigms
Unix process and concurrency models
Server application deployment and infrastructure automation
Messaging and Job Queuing with Redis, Resque, Zeromq, RabbitMQ, and others
Relational databases, non-relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, CouchDB, DynamoDB)
Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) a plus
Ability to communicate effectively and a scientific mindset - empirically test your hypotheses.
We believe in not standing in the way of creativity, be deserving of the freedom we'll give you. You direct your own work and are pro-active in asking for input.
Startup experience or past work with cryptocurrencies are an added bonus
Interests: open-source, entrepreneurship, economics and financial markets, equal access for all people globally, strong work ethic, creative thinking, systems thinking, cryptography, creative logic, fast-paced environment
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What we offer:
Competitive salary and compelling seed stage equity
Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents
Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy
Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies
Open source projects 100% of the time
A learning environment where you can dive into the latest technologies and engineering principles as well as mentor our upcoming engineers
Work with some of the best - early Bitcoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators
State-of-the-art penthouse facility in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District and flexibility to work remotely
The opportunity to change the way we transact
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To apply, email REDACTED_EMAIL
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