About this role
As a Senior Scala Engineer you will work in a team of engineers, ensuring technical excellence and smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You have the ability to mentor more junior team members, help enforce best practices, actively contribute to improving development processes. You will write code and help facilitate technical decisions to keep your team on track, and owned services healthy in production. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables.
- 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms.
- Extensive engineering experience in:
- Scala and related frameworks (Zio, Cats Effect).
- Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications.
- Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures.
- Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms.
- Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgresql.
- Observability tools like Splunk and Dynatrace.
- Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Agile product delivery, Scrum and Extreme Programming practices.
- Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset.