Platform Engineer (Java)

Revolut; Porto; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut is seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to core backend systems that power our fintech platform. You will work on the event store, transactional infrastructure, and scale high-throughput services used across the company.

You’ll collaborate with multiple engineering teams, review designs, and help shape software that affects millions of users. We value strong communication, distributed systems experience, and fluency in English in a fast-paced, diverse environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, maths, physics, or similar
• Production fluency in Java and readiness to work primarily in Java
• Experience building core systems or foundational platforms
• Distributed systems experience at a meaningful scale
• The ability to work well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Building and scaling core backend systems
• Writing high-throughput, concurrent code at production scale
• Collaborating with multiple teams across Engineering
• Reviewing code and helping other engineers with system design

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code review

Team collaboration

English fluency

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

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 75+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning‑fast growth, our people and culture are essential. We've been certified as a Great Place to Work and have 13,000+ people in offices and remote, all working to achieve our mission. We’re looking for more brilliant people who love building great products and turning complexity into simplicity.

About The Role

Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. The Platform Engineer will contribute to core backend systems, from the event store to the underlying transactional infrastructure. Whatever you ship at this layer affects the whole company, so a small improvement can save a lot of time for the team later.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and scaling our core systems
• Writing high-throughput, concurrent code at production scale
• Working on problems that affect multiple teams across Engineering
• Reviewing code and helping other engineers with system design

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, maths, physics, or similar field
• Production fluency in Java, or expertise in another backend language (Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go etc.) and readiness to work primarily in Java
• A track record of building core systems or foundational platforms that other engineers built on top of
• Distributed systems experience at a meaningful scale
• The ability to work well as part of a team in a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Fluency in English

Nice to Have

• A background in fintech or other high-volume transactional environment
• Experience in a startup or scale‑up
• Event sourcing in production
• Open‑source contributions to frameworks, libraries, or developer tooling

Diversity and Inclusion

We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard‑working team.