Scala Backend Engineer (Remote)

Details of the job position:

Role: Scala Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Job Summary:

• Client is looking for a strong Scala backend engineer with microservices experience to work in a small, agile team.
• The team develops client-facing REST APIs that provide data for IP TV (television over the internet), for functionality such as consumer entitlement verification, on/off-net verification, parental control verification, and settings.
• The technology stack includes Scala, Scalatra, Memcached, Kafka, MongoDB, docker, Kubernetes, Splunk and Datadog.
• All code is written in a functional style, and is fully asynchronous using Scala Futures.
• The team works at scale, handling hundreds of millions of REST calls per day.
• Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices.
• Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools.
• Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed.
• As this is a small team, engineers must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions.

Job description:

• Strong experience with Scala back end API implementation
• Understanding of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Strong mindset with a willingness to learn new domains and technologies
• Expertise in end-to-end understanding of the system and testing the services
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Experience using AWS managed services
• Experience with caching architectures, particularly Memcached
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes,
• Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).
• Strong experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).
• Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)
• Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab)

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Strong experience working with DevOps engineers to build and deploy infrastructure with cloud
• deployment technologies.
• Strong Understanding of Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.
• Experience with building and designing REST APIs using scala.
• Experience with software security principles and patterns.
• Ability to collaborate with and contribute to a common culture of excellence.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Must be capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.