We are glad to invite a Senior/Principal Scala Engineer to join one of the most dynamically growing departments, Mobile & Web Solutions, that unites more than 200 professionals in various technologies. We love technology and think that apps are all about personal touch and user experience. We truly believe we can influence that in the products we touch. We love to learn and share knowledge. If you are a positive thinker with excellent communication skills who can start new projects, help engage new customers, and deliver software of varying complexity, you are welcome to come and join us.

Customer:

​​​​​​​Our customer is from the UK. The company owns a global marketplace for the fashion industry that allows users to sell customized or rare clothes and accessories. It provides a way to recycle unwanted items for money.

Project:

The project is a social shopping platform – a mix of retail and social network platforms. Users have profile pages where they can post pictures and descriptions of what they are selling and for what price. Generally, a platform specializes in clothes retail. Posts can contain hashtags and additional information to make searching for items more comfortable. The main task is to produce the most evocative buying and selling experience for users. You will be responsible for payment system integration and working with accessibility features.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience on commercial-grade systems and applications
• Experience with Zendesk Data Integration Experience (at least one heavy exposure, preferably multiple)
• Strong experience in Scala from 3+ years
• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS and Kafka
• General front-end web development experience in a production environment
• Ways of working in an agile team
• Experience with Testing, PRs, code reviews, releasing
• Upper-Intermediate level of English

Would be a plus:

• Knowledge of ReactJS

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to new technologies investigations and complex solutions design
• Coming up with well-designed technical solutions and robust code
• Working and professionally communicating with the customer’s team
• Taking up responsibility for delivering major solution features
• Participating in requirements gathering and clarification process
• Developing core modules and functions
• Performing code reviews, writing unit, and integration tests
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the continuous improvement of the development process