Senior Scala Engineer

TeamExtn is looking for a passionate Senior Scala Engineer. It will be expected from you to build pragmatic solutions on mission-critical initiatives. If you know your stuff, see the beauty in code, have knowledge in depth and breadth, advocate best practices, and love to work with distributed systems, then this is an ideal position for you.

As a core member of our Special Projects team, you will work on various new projects in a startup-like environment. These projects may include such things as building new APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) for new products, integrating new products with core company services, building highly scalable back end processing systems in Scala and integrating with systems backed by Machine Learning. You will use cutting edge functional Scala libraries such as ZIO. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Product, Experience and Software Engineering teams to deliver impact.

Responsibilities:

• Build highly scalable APIs and back end processing systems for new products
• Contribute in the full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists
• Drive scalability and performance within our distributed AI platform
• Full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists

Skills And Experience:

• 4+ years experience with Scala, Java or other functional language
• Experience with Akka and Lightbend stack
• Expert with PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL
• Experience in architecting, developing, deploying and operating large scale distributed systems and actor systems
• Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Solid understanding of computer systems and networks
• Production quality coding standards and patterns

BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience with functional programming in Scala
• Knowledge of ZIO and related ecosystem
• Experience with functional database libraries in Scala (Quill preferred)
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Elasticsearch
• Typescript, React and frontend UI development experience
• gRPC, GraphQL

Interview Process:

Our interview involves 3 steps.

1. Code Evaluation - In this step we send you a simple assignment that you implement

2. First Technical Round - In this technical round we evaulate you on your skills, concepts and knowledge in Scala.

3. Second Technical Round - If the first round goes well we check how hands you are with Scala and have online problem solving session.