Ripple

Financial Services

StaffSoftwareEngineer-Authentication&Authorization

London, United Kingdom Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff Software Engineer - Authentication & Authorization at Ripple. Skills: Authentication, Authorization, Identity platform, Kubernetes, AI tooling. Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation. Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Backend engineering experience in Golang or Java, Building and operating production applications within Kubernetes environments, Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow, Experience collaborating across teams, Writing design documents that build alignment

Nice to Have

Familiarity with modern authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML, and how they behave in production, Experience with policy-as-code approaches to authorization (attribute-based, relationship-based, or hybrid)

What You'll Do.

Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform

including authentication flows

federation across multiple identity providers

and fine-grained authorisation

Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio

Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes

with a focus on reliability

and secure secret management

Partner with security

and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities

Write clear technical proposals

Contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org

Mentor engineers on the team through code review

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating across teams; Partner with security, compliance, and product teams; Contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org; Mentor engineers on the team through code review, design feedback, and collaboration

Communication Scope

Write clear technical proposals

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 Staff Software Engineer on Ripple's Authentication and Authorization platform team, you'll help shape 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 authorization primitives that teams across Ripple rely on every day. HOW WE WORK: 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. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Set the technical direction for Ripple's identity platform, including authentication flows, federation across multiple identity providers, and fine-grained authorisation Lead the design and delivery of a unified identity experience across Ripple's product portfolio Build and operate platform services on Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, observability, and secure secret management Partner with security, compliance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities Write clear technical proposals and contribute to architecture discussions across the engineering org Mentor engineers on the team through cod

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