Senior Back-End (Scala) Engineer

About the client:

Our customer is the European online car market with over 30 million monthly users, with a market presence in 18 countries. As a Back-end (Senior) Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Developing and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure Scala-based applications, services, and systems
• Collaborating with product managers and other stakeholders to define project requirements and specifications
• Delivering quality through the well-written unit and E2E tests 
• Collaboration and communication with team and customer in all development phases

Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial Scala development experience
• Rich experience creating REST-based web-services
• Solid experience with Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL
• Experience integrating with third parties (must have)
• Experienced working with docker and microservice architecture (must have)
• Strong knowledge of design patterns
• Experience with AWS (Dynamo DB, EKS, RDS)
• Commercial Java development experience or understanding is a plus
• Experience with Play frameworks would be a plus
• Knowledge of OpenAPI spec for API generation (nice to have)
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Upper-Intermediate level of English