Overview
Lead Software Engineer (Java) - Ledger at Revolut . We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to oversee a system that manages hundreds of thousands of transactions per minute and millions of read requests in milliseconds. You’ll drive future scalability to support Revolut’s hyper-growth and influence business decisions within a small, talented team of engineers.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Taking full ownership of the financial domain, from addressing a business problem to implementation and maintenance
- Deciding on priorities and plans, influencing business decisions
- Working on performance and scalability, ensuring a sharded, CQRS-based architecture can scale further
- Developing simple and clear APIs that encapsulate financial complexity and consistency for hundreds of services
- Participating in company-wide projects, such as onboarding and configuring new products and markets
- Continuing our scalability journey with ledgers across the globe and a full CQRS storage level
- Working directly with Product and Finance teams to become an advisor for new finance functionalities
What You’ll Need
Fluency in Java8+ years of experience in back-end developmentA bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a similar fieldExcellent communication and organisational skillsFluency in EnglishExpertise in designing and building high-performance, real-time distributed systemsSolid experience with database sharding and scaling high-concurrency systemsGreat knowledge of CQRS and event-driven architecturesThe ability to start from a business problem, scope a solution, then design, implement, test, release, and maintain itNice to have
Experience in high-load processing environments, particularly in fintech or a similar industryExperience with a global, multi-regional deployment modelExperience in startups or scale-upsExperience contributing to projects that impact an entire organisationImportant notice for candidates
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Seniority level
Seniority level : Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type : Full-time
Job function
Job function : Engineering and Information Technology
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