Scala Developer (REMOTE)

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our client is looking for a Scala Developer to join their young and dynamic company - remotely.

You will be part of the IT Development department, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining key business applications and services on their highly-specialized investment product management platform.

YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deliver high quality solutions in tight time frames to meet demanding customer requirements
• Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
• Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
• Conduce to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration/continuous deployment environment
• Become involved in the internal DevOps and Scala guilds, building relationships with other developers and identifying/implementing best practices
• Maintain close interaction with the business on very diverse topics: Front End portals to management of long-maturity life insurance products

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Fluency in English is essential
• Experience building scalable, distributed applications in Scala and Java
• Strong understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Experience in developing software in an agile environment
• Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Experience in implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
• Strong problem solving skills & ability to learn in a fast paced environment

NICE TO HAVE:

• Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry
• Cloud migration activities either Public or Private
• Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
• CQRS and event sourcing hands on experience
• Knowledge of server-less architecture would be a benefit
• DevOps experience configuration management, containers, virtualisation, continuous integration and deployment
• Practical experience with, either or both, AWS or Azure
• Akka/Akka Persistence/Akka HTTP/Akka Streams/ScalaZ/Play/Slick/Kafka/event streaming pipelines
• Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Jenkins/AngularJS

Duration: 6 months with the possibility of extension.