Senior Scala Developer

Are you an enthusiastic technology professional? Are you excited about seeking an enriching career; working for a large Tier One Bank? We are seeking for Scala engineer to join our development team within the bank for an exciting opportunity, building on top of existing technology to be implemented across other regions. You will work on a new and challenging project to implement banking systems, helping to shape the future of the Banks business.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities would be related to the following aspects:

• work closely with senior engineers in order to find best possible technical solution for the project/available requirements
• Scala development to provide banking solutions
• experience using Nexus repository software
• working against a ticketing system with different priorities
• reporting key metrics
• post go live development of continuous improvement themes such as automation and whitelisting.
• improve developer experience and make it easy to do the right thing
• challenge team to follow the best practices, eliminate process waste
• troubleshoot production/infrastructure issues
• be keen to expand current Scala/Java Skills

Must have

• 6+ years building back-end systems
• 4+ years developing in Scala or other functional programming language
• TDD
• distributed version control: Git or Mercurial
• strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Banking experience
• be able to work in multicultural work environment

Nice to have

• actor system: Akka
• HTTP stack and building REST APIs
• functional programming with Cats or ScalaZ
• ScalaTest and BDD
• Continuous integration & deployment practices
• open minded and able to quickly learn new technologies and paradigms
• Kafka or other distributed messaging system
• Distributed environments and multi-threading
• profiling and application tuning
• build tools: Gradle
• experience with Yaml, Json and Xml (Xsd)
• experience with Unix shell and CLI tools
• search engine, eg. Solr, ElasticSearch
• "search" topic issues eg. building queries, indexing, etc