Intermediate Scala Software Engineer

Job Purpose:

• Develop (mostly new) reactive software in Scala.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, code, test and debug technical solutions;
• Estimate efforts required for project implementation;
• Discuss the issues related to the application development with the project team at the customer site;
• Participate in conference calls with clients;
• Work under minimal supervision and schedule own time to correspond to the overall development plan;
• Enforce development deadlines and schedules.

Education:

• Computer science, applied mathematics or equivalent education

Experience:

• Scala (knowledge of JVM tuning, concurrency, memory model and GC would be awesome but not required);
• Akka/Play! is a big plus;
• Strong knowledge in Java.
• Functional programming experience is a plus;
• MySQL;
• MongoDB;
• Perl (desired but not required, would be a plus);
• Linux. Skills & Abilities:
• Fluent English;
• Good communication skills;
• Result and client orientation;
• Desire to learn and apply Scala or prior professional experience (personal projects is a plus in case of lack of production Scala usage)