Senior Scala Engineer (Online Shopping Platform)

We are looking for a Senior Scala Engineer to join one of the most dynamically growing departments, Mobile and Web Solutions, that unites more than 200 professionals specializing in various technologies.

We love technology and believe that apps are all about personal touch and user experience. We truly believe we can influence that in the products we touch. We love learning and sharing knowledge.

If you are a positive thinker with excellent communication skills who can start new projects, help engage new customers, and deliver software of varying complexity, you are welcome to come and join us.

Customer

Our Customer is from the UK. The company owns a global marketplace for the fashion industry that allows users to sell customized or rare clothes and accessories. It provides a way to recycle unwanted items for money.

Project

The project is a social shopping platform – a mix of retail and social networking platforms. Users have profile pages where they can post pictures and descriptions of what they are selling and for what price. Generally, a platform specializes in clothing retail. Posts can contain hashtags and additional information to make searching for items more comfortable.

The main task is to produce the most evocative buying and selling experience for users. You will be responsible for payment system integration and working with accessibility features.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience on commercial-grade systems and applications

• Strong experience in Scala of at least 5 years

• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS and RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka

• Scala-logging with Logback Back-end

• Experience with Play framework

• Experience with Postgres 11.5

• General Front-end web development experience in a production environment

• Ways of working in an Agile team

• Experience with testing, PRs, code reviews, and releases

• Upper-Intermediate level of English

Would be a plus

• Experience with ReactJS

Responsibilities

• Contribute to new technologies investigations and complex solutions design

• Come up with well-designed technical solutions and robust code

• Work and professionally communicate with the Customer’s team

• Take up responsibility for delivering major solution features

• Participate in requirements gathering and clarification process

• Develop core modules and functions

• Perform code reviews, writing unit, and integration tests

• Mentor Junior engineers and contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process

Meet your team!