Scala Engineer

Evolution is a world-leading developer and provider of products for the iGaming industry. From its 30+ locations, more than 15,000 EVOlutioneers work together to deliver the company's award-winning products to players around the globe. We believe in investing in our people and in empowering our staff. 1000+ Engineers work in 11 engineering hubs in agile self-organizing teams with the freedom to experiment and explore. This goes for the daily work as well as for our hackathons and competitions. We are hard workers who believe that we are better as a team.

Our engineering hub in Warsaw has been opened in the winter of 2021 and is expected to grow up to 300 engineers, artists and support teams.

We are searching for passionate Senior Scala Engineers. We thrive in well-designed, scalable, systems that use modern functional programming based design approaches. We believe that the functional programming approach in Scala results in systems that are easier to build and maintain - we use modern, pragmatic approaches such as Tagless Final and libraries such as Cats and Cats Effect to achieve this.

You will need to:

• Be proactive, pragmatic and professional, deliver results;
• Write code that makes our games and related functionality run;
• Write unit and other automated tests;
• Work and communicate efficiently with the rest of the development team, including PO, front-end developers and designers;
• Actively participate in code reviews so that code delivered by you and your team is of great quality;
• Own your applications, ensure they deploy and run 24/7 on our Kubernetes platform with great performance;
• Be ready to invest the effort to become an even better developer;

To succeed in this role you should have:

• Passion for our profession, in particular Scala and Functional Programming, and improving yourself technically
• Proven experience in delivering production software using Scala or comparable experiences, such as extensive JVM or Haskell experience
• Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent.

We will appreciate:

• Experience building high performance clustered systems, modular FP-based architecture, as well as actor systems, where they are necessary;
• Experience in Cats / Scalaz, Cats Effect, ZIO, Monix, Akka Actors, Persistence, Cluster & HTTP, http4s, Tagless Final and/or Scala.js.
• Experience with Event Sourcing & CQRS;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra. 

We offer:

• Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time;
• Recognition from the business translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude;
• Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world;
• A healthy mix of startup-like culture of the company, which enables us to try new approaches and technologies and remain on the edge of technological development and enterprise, with stability and supporting functions to help you focus on your job;
• Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum / Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice);
• Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly-traded company;
• Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, hackathons and other benefits and perks.

At Evolution, we have implemented Whistleblower Protection Policy and provide secure and confidential channels for reporting legal or ethical concerns, available to anyone with a direct or indirect work relationship with the Company, including current and former Employees, Candidates, Shareholders, Contractors, Service Providers, Trainees, Entrepreneurs, and their proxies. To submit a report, please contact us via our dedicated whistleblowing channel at whistleblower@evolution.com