Principal Software Engineer

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:

• 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, written primarily in Kotlin, within the Corda ecosystem and will assist other teams in understanding how to best utilize the software you develop.
• As a recognized 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.
• Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation
• Depth of expertise in high level programming languages (Java/Kotlin/Python etc.) 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
• Extensive JVM knowledge (garbage collection, performance tuning, and memory profiling)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts & Kubernetes networking.
• Kotlin experience
• PKI and other cryptographic knowledge
• Experience supporting systems in production. Investigating and diagnosing issues for internal or external customers.
• 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 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.