This position is available as either 100% remote - you should be available / working during daylight hours in Central European (Summer) Time - or you can work at our headquarters in Cologne, Germany where many of our engineering team are situated.

At ESL, we are esports, our mission is to create a world where everybody can be somebody. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at ESL you will be a leading member in the development of a team working on the tournament system or integrations that power our flagship esports tournament platform ESL Play.

As a leading member of your team, you will be relied on for your expertise in backend development to make smart decisions how our backend services are engineered, implement best practices and assist other team members.

Your Future Tasks:

Building & improving our tournament platform & integration services and software architecture
Migrating and rebuilding features from PHP to Scala microservices
Researching & experimenting how to improve how we build software
Helping other teams architect their services
Giving feedback & estimating upcoming work
Planning work with your team
Communicating with product owners & other teams
Writing & updating tests
Documentation in our documentation tool (Confluence)
Issues kept up to date & work logged in our issue tracker (JIRA)

Your profile

Must-haves:

4+ years of experience in software engineering and architecting of which, at least 1 year developing in Scala
Experience architecting software, in particular microservices written in Scala
Willingness to mentor other engineers

Nice to have:

Experience with PHP, in particular migrating from PHP to Scala
Any strong & statically typed languages other than Scala
University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
Effective communication skills with different stakeholders
Experience with any of the following:
Developing in Scala or any JVM language
Orchestration with Mesos & Marathon, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes
Databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandara
Kafka, Akka Streams
Finch, Finagle (twitter stack)
Cloud providers, in particular AWS
Experience playing online games or knowledge of esports

About us:

ESL is the world's largest & leading eSports company, operating various online and offline competitions such as Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One, CS:GO Pro-League as well as numerous regional and national leagues. ESL has offices in 13 different countries and operations on all continents with around 500 employees. The global Headquarters is in Cologne, and we belong to MTG (Modern Times Group).

We are an incredibly fast paced digital company, driven by the passion for creating this new chapter of the sports entertainment history. We value independent minds, initiative and start-up mindset. We give quickly responsibilities and opportunities, with us you really can be somebody and have a positive impact.

Application information

You feel ready for the challenge to work at ESL? Please fill in our application form including your earliest starting date and your desired salary. Please add the requested documents in PDF format.

Any certificates you want to send us additionally can be attached to either your CV or your cover letter.

Senior Scala Backend Software Engineer - REMOTE

ESL