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 startup’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 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 large scale distributed systems and architecture for our platform. The platform 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:
- Over time, you will become a subject matter expert in the Corda platform, able to advise engineers, sales, support and our customers.
- You will design and implement highly complex software, within the Corda ecosystem and will assist other teams in understanding how to best utilise the software you develop.
- Work with industry-leading technologies to build the most robust version of Corda to date.
- As a recognised expert both inside and outside R3, you will help promote the work you have been doing to help the company in delivering the best possible software.
- You will mentor other engineers, enabling them to understand your approach to understanding and solving complex problems.
- You will use well developed and comprehensive judgment to make decisions of high complexity and impact, utilising team opinion and senior leadership where needed but often use autonomy in decision making.
- You will use well honed business analysis skills to interact with product management team(s) to marry technical delivery and client requirements.
- You will use well developed customer focus skills to anticipate internal/external customer requests.
- You will contribute to the technical direction and strategic vision of Corda engineering.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles, preferably building a SaaS or Platform product.
- Expertise in designing scalable, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in languages like Java,Kotlin, Python, Go, or C++.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their distributed database solutions.
- Knowledge of networking principles (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, gRPC, DNS, etc.).
- Experience with distributed database and their scaling solutions for high-volume transaction processing.
- Expertise in RESTful and GraphQL APIs for distributed systems.
- Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation.
Nice to haves:
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Helm, Terraform or alternative solutions.
- Experience building and designing Microapps/Microservices.
- Hands on experience in managing infrastructure, containerisation & deployments.
- Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack for tracking distributed systems.
- Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
- Blockchain and DLT Knowledge.
- Financial Systems and CBDC Domain Knowledge.
R3 is a leading enterprise technology firm specialising in digital solutions for regulated financial markets. Our technology enables financial markets to operate with greater efficiency, transparency and enhanced connectivity. Our focus is on progressing markets and fostering an open, trusted and enduring digital economy.
R3ers center around our core values – Collaborative, Ownership, Bold and Customer First – as a result our flagship DLT platform, Corda, and R3 Digital Markets product suite is trusted by the world’s leading financial market infrastructures (FMIs), exchanges, central banks and commercial banks.
R3 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive team that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
If you don’t meet all of the above criteria, but you think you’d be a great addition to R3, send us your CV/resume. We’re always interested in meeting bold, collaborative people who are excited to work with us.
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What We Do
R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. Multi-party solutions developed on our platforms harness the "Power of 3"—R3's trust technology, connected networks and regulated markets expertise—to drive market innovation and improve processes in banking, capital markets, global trade and insurance.
As one of the first companies to deliver both a private, distributed ledger technology (DLT) application platform and confidential computing technology, R3 empowers institutions to realize the full potential of trusted direct collaboration. We maintain one of the largest DLT production ecosystems in the world connecting over 400 institutions, including global systems integrators, cloud providers, technology firms, software vendors, corporates, regulators, and financial institutions from the public and private sectors. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
