Lead Full Stack Engineer, Marketing

at  Ripple

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:

Ripple is looking for a Full Stack Web Engineer to lead engineering efforts in support of our Design and Marketing team. This position is responsible for setting priorities and developing technical approaches to enhance and run all of Ripple’s marketing websites as we continue to grow our brand globally. This role reports to the Senior Director of Design.
The ideal candidate has a wealth of knowledge and experience in web development from the server to the client and excels in explaining sophisticated technological concepts to non-technical partners. Specifically, your key multi-functional partners will be digital designers, brand designers, integrated marketers, and technical operations. You are a strong leader and communicator. Your extensive knowledge of standard processes and web technology will help to drive our team’s culture of agile feature development and the broad support of our customers.
You will work hands-on with your team, write code and ship features daily, and make vital decisions about our engineering practices and tech stack while keeping the team and company objectives and key results in mind. The ability to mentor the team in their aspirations to learn and improve their skills is a strong plus.

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• 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.
• Weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• 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. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
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• Own the development, maintenance, and implementation of a validated technical roadmap for our marketing sites, balancing vital upkeep and new features while addressing the needs of major customers.
• Ownership of deployments to both front and backend platforms, including CI/CD strategies, content migration, and testing.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery protocols, security and performance monitoring, and other approaches to reinforce platform stability.
• Define and codify coding standards, framework usage guidelines, and internal tooling standards to ease onboarding and provide guidance to external engineering resources.
• Research and develop platform features that will empower internal partners to easily supply content with minimal involvement from engineering resources.
• Make key decisions about which technologies and platforms to use and how best to maximise their features.
• Extend, improve, and maintain developer documentation.
• Continuously monitor analytics platforms and other tooling to identify issues and ways to improve SEO performance and other key benchmarks.
• Write, test, and review front and backend code to improve both your and your team’s work wherever possible.
• Be responsible for projects from requirements gathering, technical scoping, time estimation, vendor onboarding, security assessment, and full development cycle.
• Partner with design and marketing leaders to understand, clarify, and define UX requirements.