Scala Engineer

About This Role

Contribute to core services and data aggregation layers, building high-quality integrations and working with internal and external partners to enrich financial data. Develop automation across the stack and collaborate with front-end developers to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core services and data aggregation layer, meeting needs for scale, quality, and rapid iteration
• Build high quality integrations with other internal services leveraging the client’s rich financial data set
• Work closely with external partners to acquire new data to enrich the core user experience
• Develop automation throughout the stack; through build & deployment processes, testing, monitoring, data pipeline, and beyond
• Work with front-end developers to complete end-to-end solutions and iterate rapidly
• Learn new skills as the product and technology footprint grows

Requirements

• Proficient in Scala
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS or similar data messaging platform
• Experience building highly integrated, large-scale, high-volume, and testable systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers technologies
• A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages, networking and Linux operating systems
• Expert understanding of web application internals and scalability at any tier
• Proficiency in SQL, relational database schema design and ORM technologies & concepts
• Strong understanding of deployment strategies and production infrastructure needs
• Strong communication and leadership abilities
• Experience with Agile/Scrum practices
• Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models
• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of industry experience working as a backend developer

Skills

* Required skills