This role exists within R3 Engineering. Reporting to the Chief Engineering Officer, R3 Engineering provides technical product development for our blockchain platform, Corda, and all its associated services.
 
Job Description

The successful candidate will work as part of the Notaries team, which develops and maintains one of the critical components of R3’s distributed ledger technology. The team operates as a self-sufficient squad, and is responsible for ensuring that the Notary service is able to guarantee transaction uniqueness in a performant and cost effective manner, in addition to making enhancements to the software to deliver new capabilities.
 
Key competencies:
 
Depth of Expertise: Typically, 3+ years of notable commercial experience, in two or more areas
 
Innovation & Improvement: Able to contribute in feature design and provide validation of changes proposed in review sessions
 
Take on write-up of design features with frequent architectural reviews with reviewers outside of own team
 
Level of Interaction: Communicate effectively with engineers and product managers
 
Ownership & Responsibility: May be responsible for small project or workstream
 
Coaching & Talent Management: Buddying and technical interviewing. May lead/mentor interns or more junior engineers
 
Impact: Able to capture bug fixes and rationale for decisions in log
 
Decision Making: Reasonable autonomy on bug fixing that is captured in decision logs

Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of a team within the larger engineering group to deliver high quality and well tested code
• Realization and delivery of technical designs to meet release deadlines
• Code review peer and open-source contributions to the codebase
• Contribute to the technical enablement of R3’s field teams
• Liaise with the R3 Support team to troubleshoot and address customer issues
• Have an intermediate or growing understanding of the business and their needs.
• The nature of the work is transactional with an intermediate understanding of client needs.
• Work with product managers to deliver larger features without guidance supervision
• Able to take a feature from design to delivery with guidance and input from more senior engineers

Education and Experience:

• Strong understanding of computer science and engineering principles, obtained through a combination of advanced academic study and significant professional experience
• Typically, 3+ years’ experience in an enterprise level environment
• Experience delivering end-to-end platforms and services
• Familiarity of multiple layers of the infrastructure and application stack from systems / OS development through networking, middleware, and application logic
• Proven problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
• Practical experience with the following technologies would be beneficial: Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure platforms and tools such as AWS, Azure, Terraform, SQL Database technologies (Postgres, Oracle etc.)

How We’re Handling Covid-19

We are extremely grateful to continue to grow as a company during these unprecedented times. Our #1 priority is the health, safety, and wellbeing of our current and future R3’ers. We want to share with you what we’re doing and what you can expect throughout our interview and on-boarding processes.

Since March, most R3’ers have been working remotely, although we have opened some key office locations global, with limited capacity for those that cannot work from home or need to come into the office.

As you go through the virtual interview process with us, please don’t worry if children or pets make a guest appearance. We understand these things happen- it’s real life after all! If we are fortunate enough to welcome you to the team, we’ll get a laptop couriered to you and get you set up virtually on your first day.  We also provide you with a “Work From Home” allowance to enable you to purchase some equipment to be more comfortable and productive.

We Have And Will Continue To Take Steps To Ease Some Of The Burden For Our R3’ers

We understand that Work From Home (WFH) life can be challenging in many ways, so some of the additional support measures we have in place include;

• New Starter WFH allowance (as mentioned above) to get you setup to work productively at home
• Additional access to wellbeing resources (as well as the support provided as part of your Vitality Private Medical) including a year’s free subscription to the Headspace app and modules on our Lessonly training platform from MindGym (including Goal getting, Stress Busters and Virtual Work)
• We also have additional health and wellbeing resources available on our wiki pages when you join.

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