Java Software Engineer jobs in Spain

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology