Corda & Solana Engineer

London
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

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.You will work at, and help define, the exciting convergence point between TradFi (Traditional Finance) and DeFi (Decentralised Finance). You are a Software Engineer with a product mindset and will be building platforms for today's and tomorrow's world financial system.You'll be part of our multidisciplinary engineering team, where you will build and evolve our Corda Distributed Ledger Technology, powering private enterprises, networks and the Solana public blockchain.The team is focussed on building out both:-The next evolution of the Java Virtual Machine-based Corda DLT platform, designed to deliver greater value, performance, and resilience for both new and existing financial enterprises.-Integration of Corda with the high-performance Solana public blockchain to enable interoperability both among multiple Corda private networks and between Corda and the Solana public network.You will bring an enterprise software engineering, design and architecture background to bear on the exciting and fast world of Private Distributed Ledgers and Public Blockchain that is used, and to be used, by some of the largest financial institutions in the world.Responsibilities

Deliver the product and technical roadmap aligning to customer & stakeholder needs.
You will design and implement complex software solutions, written primarily in Kotlin, within the Corda server JVM codebase and/or work with the integration of Corda with the Solana public blockchain in Rust
Assist other teams in understanding how to best utilize the software you develop.
Collaborate with fellow engineers within the team and organisation 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.
You will hone your business analysis skills to interact with the product management team to marry technical delivery and product requirements.
You will develop customer focus skills to anticipate internal/external customer requests.
You will contribute to the technical direction of Corda engineering.

Skills & Qualifications

Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
Experience in software engineering roles, preferably building a complex distributed system, platform or Solana based 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/Rust) with hands on experience in supporting (3rd level), investigating, diagnosing, debugging and fixing deployed systems.
Experience in designing and developing Distributed Systems.
A positive, cheerful, can-do attitude where obstacles are just problems yet to be solved.

Nice to Haves

Java libraries and ecosystem knowledge and experience.
Solana eco system & Rust programming language.
Corda knowledge / experience, or another DLT or Blockchain besides Solana.
Experience with ZK Compression.
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 - but we regularly hire Java engineers with no 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.

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