VP Engineering | Ripple Labs | San Francisco
REDACTED_EMAIL | www.ripplelabs.com
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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 (a for-profit company) developed Ripple, 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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You will:
Be our first VP Engineering, reporting to our CTO Lead and grow our team of developers and architects
Implement the processes and leadership layer to enable team to scale
Drive our open source efforts
Organize and manage:
rippled (core protocol)
Trading/Market Making Applications
Financial Institution Integrations (API’s etc.)
Developer Community
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What you might look like:
Proven track record in engineering leadership: managed and scaled teams of 20 to 50/60
Excellent recruiter and inspirational leader: ability to attract and hire grade-A talent, understands how to motivate and guide development team.
Understands importance of balancing speed VS quality of execution (can’t afford overly long development cycles).
Helpful to have background in: security and reliability, cryptography, applications, open source development, javascript, P2P, payments, security, and/or movements of money.
Broad thinking, results and technology driven VS control/responsibility driven.
Thrives in an agile startup environment.
Capable of doing code reviews and calling BS on the architects
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What we can offer you:
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
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)