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About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 60+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we\'ve been certified as a Great Place to Work. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we\'re looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

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, and influencing business decisions
• Working on performance and scalability, ensuring our sharded, CQRS-based architecture can easily scale further
• Developing simple and clear APIs that encapsulate financial complexity and consistency for hundreds of services
• Participating in company-wide projects, such as seamlessly 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 Java
• 8+ years of experience in back-end development
• A bachelor\'s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a similar field
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Fluency in English
• Expertise in designing and building high-performance, real-time distributed systems
• Solid experience with database sharding and scaling high-concurrency systems
• Great knowledge of CQRS and event-driven architectures
• The ability to start from a business problem, scope a solution, then design, implement, test, release, and maintain it

Nice to have

• Experience in high-load processing environments, particularly in fintech or a similar industry
• Experience with a global, multi-regional deployment model
• Experience in startups or scale-ups
• Experience contributing to projects that impact an entire organisation

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology