Job DescriptionWho are we looking forWe're looking for an experienced Scala developer who loves to build innovative and high-quality products.As part of a senior and highly committed team you will use Scala's latest patterns and libraries such as Zio, Cats, Akka to build core backend services for our products.
You will come into contact with infrastructure such as Kafka and Kubernetes, expose your services as OpenAPI services, and you will work in an environment where quality comes first enforced by automated continuous deployment procedures.
Consumers of your services are both mobile apps and web apps managed by InvestSuite as well as 3rd party services and applications.Main responsibilitiesDeploy applications that meet our customer's highest demands in terms of performance, availability and securityDesign and implement clean and scalable public and internal APIsTake full responsibility for certain identified backend support componentsQualificationsRequired skills & experienceMasters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field - or equivalent professional experienceAt least 4 years of Scala experience (not counting education)Knowledge about / experience with:Zio ecosystemAkkaShapelessMonixKafkaEnglish fluency - spoken & writtenProactivity & problem solving skills.
Proactive in solving risks and issues in a timely manner, or to re-prioritize on close collaboration with the product owner if requiredExperience with agile project approaches (Scrum)Other skills & experience we would love to seeKnowledge & experience with reactive architecture, microservices and containerization technologies such as DockerExpertise in writing unit tests and end to end platform integration testsExperience with automated build, test and deploy pipelinesKnowledge of cloud and serverless architectures as well as infrastructure as codePassion for technologies for distributed messaging such as Kafka, AkkaAffinity with financial markets and wealth management