Senior Software Engineer, Authentication & Authorisation (Backend)

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 th