We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to optimize and scale our liquidity businesses. Candidates will partner with quantitative developers, applied scientists, and other software engineers to deliver new automation and systems that connect to machine learning and other optimizations that use market data to make better decisions. Those solutions will influence how we run our business, meaning you will partner with collaborators across the company - including Payments Product and Engineering, Applied Scientists, Trading and Markets, and Finance - to help build them well. In this role, you will also mentor other engineers to create a multiplier effect on your expertise in areas of system design, operational excellence, and iterative, continuous deployment.

Ideal candidates will have a track record of technical excellence in designing, building, and delivering reliable solutions as part of a team. As a member of a growing initiative, you must be passionate about the role data can play in running customer-facing businesses. You are relentless in your commitment to operational excellence, ensuring that decisions are made based on the highest quality data possible. Be an ambitious builder, working up and down the stack, mixing software engineering, data engineering, and knowledge of machine learning deployments to deliver solutions that power a business

Provide leadership in the full software development lifecycle, from sculpting technical vision and software design to unit, integration, and end-to-end testing

Work with teams across the organization, including partner engineering teams, product, markets, platform, and legal, among others

Design and implement tools and processes to be an expert consumer of market data, specifically in real-time

Be curious about how data can help solve problems, using your high standards for data quality and engineering operational excellence to ensure we treat data like we treat production code

Be a technical domain expert, provide technical leadership,



and share your expertise with a team of engineers

Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment

8+ years of hands-on Software Development experience on large-scale distributed systems, with the last 5-7+ years in a major programming language (Java Python, Go, or similar) and 2+ years experience working as a tech lead

Experience building and deploying containerized applications (e.g. Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, Databricks, or similar), with experience building transactional systems (preferably in finance/banking/e-commerce domains) to wrangle large, structured event data sources such as tick data

Experience with real-time data is a huge plus

Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and security

BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar, MS/PhD a plus

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.

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Market-competitive salary, bonuses, and equity

Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support

Mobile phone stipend

Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming

Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it

Industry-leading parental leave policies. Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.

📌 Staff Software Development Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Ripple Labs
📍 Toronto