R3 is hiring a

Web3 Staff Software Engineer (Digital Currencies)

At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a start up’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.

At R3, you will be a Staff Software Engineer with a product mindset, building platforms for today’s world financial system. You’ll be part of our multidisciplinary engineering team, where you will build end to end deployable distributed services, and work closely with engineers at all levels, other Principal Engineers, Product managers, Solutions Architects, and Application Engineers. 

You will be responsible for building and maintaining large scale distributed systems and architecture for our Digital Currency product. The product spans over multiple services/microservices & networks which run on fully container orchestrated environments. You will be playing a key role in building the product that is innovating financial technology products for large economies. We aim to have a fast, agile and automated product engineering philosophy that will provide safe and secure experience to our users. 

Responsibilities

• Deliver the product and technical roadmap aligning to customer & stakeholder needs.
• You will design and implement complex software, written primarily in Kotlin, and will assist other teams in understanding how to best utilize the software you develop.
• Collaborate with fellow engineers within the team and organization by developing technical plans and contributing to technical architecture
• You will mentor and assist other engineers, enabling them to understand your approach to understanding and solving problems.
• You will use developed and comprehensive judgment to make decisions of complexity, utilising team opinion and Principle Engineers where needed but often use autonomy in decision making.
• You will hone your business analysis skills to interact with product management team(s) to marry technical delivery and client requirements.
• You will develop customer focus skills to anticipate internal/external customer requests.
• You will contribute to the technical direction of Digital Currency engineering.

Skills & Qualifications

• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering roles, preferably building a SaaS or Platform product.  
• Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation
• Depth of expertise in Kotlin or Java with hands on experience in supporting (3rd level), investigating, diagnosing, debugging and fixing deployed systems. 
• Experience in designing and developing Distributed Systems. 

Nice to Haves

• Java libraries and ecosystem knowledge and experience.
• Experience of message brokers and relational databases.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts & Kubernetes networking. 
• Experience working in Kotlin.
• Experience using Terraform for defining and deploying cloud infrastructure resources.
• Experience supporting systems in production. Investigating and diagnosing issues for internal or external customers.