Ripple
Financial Services
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Authentication&Authorisation(Backend)
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“Senior Software Engineer, Authentication & Authorisation (Backend) at Ripple. Skills: Authentication, Authorisation, Identity platform, Backend engineering, Kubernetes. Own significant parts of how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment, custody, and liquidity products. Own the design and delivery of significant components within Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, IdP integrations, and authorisation services”
What You'll Achieve.
Bringing them to production; Deliver platform capabilities that meet their needs
Industry & Context.
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.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, 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, 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)
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Own significant parts of how identity works across our growing portfolio of payment
and liquidity products
Own the design and delivery of significant components within Ripple's identity platform
including authentication flows
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
and secure secret management
Contribute to architecture discussions and technical proposals across the team and wider engineering org
Partner with security
and product teams to deliver platform capabilities that meet their needs
Support the development of less experienced engineers through code review
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating across teams; Partner with security, compliance, and product teams; Contribute to architecture discussions and technical proposals across the team and wider engineering org; Support the development of less experienced engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing
Communication Scope
Writing clear technical documentation
Process & Methodology
Lead well-scoped projects end-to-end
Full Job Description
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: 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 experi
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