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 building substantial enhancements as well as maintaining our Corda platform, that underpins diverse customer solutions. Corda is a DLT designed for running complex workflows between businesses, without any centralized points of control. You will work on a blockchain/DLT platform trusted by banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, payments companies, and others – highly demanding industries with the interesting technical challenges that come with them, as we take these customers to the next level of performance, availability and manageability. 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 software, written primarily in Kotlin, within the Corda ecosystem and will assist other teams in understanding how to best utilize the software you develop.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers within the team by developing technical plans and contributing to technical architecture
- You will make decisions, utilising other team Engineers where needed to advise and refine your decision making skills.
- 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.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering roles, preferably building a SaaS or Platform product.
- Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup
- Expertise in high level programming languages (Java/Kotlin/Python etc.).
- Experience in developing Distributed Systems.
Nice to haves:
- Java libraries and ecosystem knowledge and experience
- Experience of message brokers and relational databases
- JVM knowledge (garbage collection, memory profiling)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts & Kubernetes networking.
- Kotlin experience
- PKI and other cryptographic knowledge
- Experience of Linux, shell scripting or other scripting languages, Linux command line tools, TCP/IP networking
- Corda knowledge / experience, or another DLT
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
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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.
