Senior Scala Engineer - Remote - B2B Contract

We are looking for a Senior Back End Developer to join us in designing, developing and maintaining premium web experiences for our consumers. You are a forward-thinking individual who enjoys taking initiative and diving deep into emerging technologies. You thrive on challenging yourself daily and seek to surround yourself with like-minded individuals? Then this is the job for you!

The ideal candidate should have the following qualities:

• Is able to work autonomously – Freedom with Responsibility is the mantra at the SuprNation office!
• Is passionate about coding and loves to learn and share new concepts and techniques.
• Can work in a flat organisation where ideas (rather than people) ‘win’ at the end of the day.
• Can write functional code and understands the benefits of immutability. A sea of immutability with islands of mutability.
• Odersky! rings a bell? Great!
• Is fluent in Java or Scala. Experience in Scala will be considered an asset.
• Gets excited upon hearing about Event Sourcing, Microservices and Actors!
• Is not fixated with a particular language/technology but rather with the underlying concepts and ideas.
• Is eager to collaborate with other smart people to create an amazing casino product.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop maintainable and reusable software
• Implement automated testing and unit tests
• Collaborate closely with back-end and front-end engineers to develop new and maintain existing systems
• Work autonomously with little or no supervision
• Creating database schemas to support business requirements
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Optimize applications to obtain maximum throughput and scalability
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Managing hosting environments, including basic database administration and scaling of application to support load changes

Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 2+ years of experience in software development
• Strong knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot operational issues
• Ability to write and optimize SQL and display an understanding of relational databases
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming languages such as Java and Scala is an asset

Our Tech Stack

• Scala / Doobie / Cats
• Java / Spring / Hibernate
• Akka
• RXJava
• Kubernetes / Docker
• GKE

Benefits

• Lab days – Bi-weekly, employees has a whole day to investigate any technology, topic and concepts which they are interested in to ensure there is no technical debt
• Personal setup – We believe that developers are craftsmen and should pick their equipment and tools; this includes mobile, laptop, monitor etc.
• Vacation days, sick days and national holidays – We do not differentiate between remote or on-site employees, and we believe they should have equal benefits
• Flexible timing
• Relocation opportunities & support

Send your resume to suprnation@scalajobs.com