Job Title: Senior Scala Software Engineer
Location: Colombia/Mexico - REMOTE
Teh Stak:
Scala, Lightbend ecosystem (Akka), Functional Programming, AWS (S3, EKS), Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Kafka, New Relic
Main duties include:
·Work with a highly collaborative group of engineers.
·Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing demands of the business.
·Contribute to a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices.
·Lead and participate in high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions.
·Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
·Ensure team-wide code quality through code reviews and PR feedback.
·Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level.
·Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses.
Qualifications:
·Minimum of five years of professional experience.
·Proficient in Scala and functional programming paradigms.
·Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.
·Experience with the software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/C, and various testing approaches.
·Distributed systems knowledge, having supported multiple high-throughput systems in a production setting
·Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for computing, databases, storage, containers, and serverless technologies.
·Experience with asynchronous programming models, ideally with Kafka.
·Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering tradeoffs versus business needs.
·Persistent sense of curiosity to understand why something is and needs to be.
·Accountability and a sense of extreme ownership that doesnt end after the system is deployed to production.
·Excellent written and verbal communication skills.