R3 is hiring a

Web3 Senior Software Engineer (Corda 4 Enhancements)

We are looking for talented and experienced software engineers to join the team working on the Corda 4 Enterprise and Open Source platforms. Corda 4 is currently the most widely adopted version of our distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, in production with many of our flagship customers.

You will be working on some design and implementation of enhancements to the Corda 4 platform, these enhancements are driven by customer need. You will be involved in design discussions and will contribute to the design and implementation of the enhancements.

You will also relish the problem solving challenges of tracking down, understanding and diagnosing issues and bugs as and when they are discovered in production environments in collaboration with our customer’s technology teams and our Support Engineering function.

The Role:

• Discuss, design and implement enhancements to the Corda 4 platform using Kotlin.
• Investigate and resolve issues with elegant solutions that stand the test of time.
• Provide ad hoc support when required to our support team in the investigation of potential issues.
• Support other departments in r3 where engineering assistance is required.
• Mentor, support and guide junior team members.

About You:

• Maintains a positive, can do, cheerful attitude.
• Self-sufficient software engineer with distributed system design skills.
• Strong understanding of computer science and engineering principles, obtained through academic study and professional experience.
• Strong experience of Java, with an eagerness to learn Kotlin. JVM knowledge, (garbage collection tuning, performance and memory profiling).
• Demonstrable experience leading and owning the design efforts for multiple distributed system components.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive commercial experience. Interacts with cross functional teams to take open requirements to a working production system.
• Able to work equally well as part of a team or individually.
• Has a delivery focused attitude.
• Motivated by solving obscure problems.
• Experience investigating issues with applications running in production.
• Experience debugging, reproducing or theorising edge cases that might be reported by Quality Assurance testers or customers.
• Writes code that is simple, elegant and fit for the long term.
• Able to articulate complex concepts.
• Thinks in the long term when engineering solutions.
• Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology experience not necessary but an eagerness to learn is.
• Message Broker, Message Queueing or similar experience beneficial.