On the RippleX team at Ripple, we champion the builders of tomorrow by providing the infrastructure, tools, services, programs and support for creation on one of the world’s fastest, most sustainable and consistently reliable public blockchain - XRPL. By supporting an open community of developers, they can advance the solutions and innovation needed to allow businesses, consumers, institutions and governments to fuel the engine of a new digital economy. RippleX operates on the belief that realizing the Internet of Value hinges on how easily new technology works for more people, and how effectively we can change the way the world operates today. We have a big vision and the ambition to match. We are seeking the same in engineers. You also see the huge potential of this technology and have the entrepreneurial spirit and technical excellence to realize the vision we have. There is a lot of work to get there but we are committed to building out the best team to achieve this. What you'll do? * You will be joining a team building a highly scalable and available distributed system. Performance and reliability are critical. * You will be expected to do everything from architecture and design, to implementing those designs in code (C++), to testing the implementations for correctness and performance, and finally optimizing the implementations for better performance. * Our open source software runs the XRP Ledger, and thus you will work directly on the XRP Ledger protocol and data. * Write concise system design documents leading discussions among both internal and external engineering stakeholders What you'll bring? * 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience, with the last 2+ years in C++. Experience in backend and/or distributed systems development * Experience working with any one of the database technologies (Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc). Excited about blockchains, the technical details and the potential benefits.