Senior Scala Engineer

At IMG ARENA we acquire the official rights to the data and video streams of a diverse range of federations, tournament formats and sports such as basketball, football, golf, MMA, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and many more to come. We collect real-time player and ball tracking data, scoring information, and other relevant data at sports venues. This data is then enhanced using mathematical models and delivered to customers worldwide with low latency speed. Additionally, we offer advanced visualizations for both web and mobile platforms, including 3D views.

IMG ARENA is looking for individuals on position:

Scala Engineer (senior)

About the role

Scala Engineer is a senior-level position. The role offers the opportunity to act as a key technical pivot within a motivated and energetic team and to be involved in solving a broad range of challenges while supporting a rapidly expanding segment of IMG ARENA’s digital businesses.

Scala Developer is a key member tasked with further development of platform to distribute low-latency, highly reliable, sporting data to substantial customer base. On a daily bases SD collaborates in five members team. Scala Engineer reports to Lead Scala Engineer who is based in the UK. Remote working is permitted.

What will you do? 

• Act as a technical leader and mentor, taking ownership of complex technical issues
• Work together with the rest of the IMG ARENA and other internal/external partners to define and build new products and features.
• Participate in design/architecture sessions and contribute to the technical direction of the team and department.
• Implement new products and features according to their acceptance criteria, as well as maintaining and improving the existing features/codebase
• Help define, maintain and improve ways of working 
• Assisting with recruitment of new team members

What are we looking for?

• Professional software development experience in Scala with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence
• Significant experience developing with multiple JVM technologies/ libraries (e.g. Akka, Hazelcast, etc)
• Strong experience with relational databases, ideally Postgres
• Experience working with, and deploying to, cloud services (especially AWS)
• Knowledge of working with build pipelines and continuous deployment models
• Experience in building globally scalable software architecture
• Great design and problem-solving skills, with demonstrable experience in building simple implementations to complex problems and object-oriented design
• Knowledge and experience in developing web services that are robust and easily consumed
• Sound API design skills and knowledge of HTTP principles
• Approachable and a strong communicator.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of and interest in a wide variety of sports.

Technologies we use:

• SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Akka (HTTP & Streams) 
• Messaging brokers; RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform 
• AWS instance management and deployment
• Linux, shell scripting
• CI/CD; Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub.

Recruitment stages:

• Pre-interview with Recruiter (30")
• Interview with Tech Team (45")
• Tech test