Senior Scala Developer

Project description

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 APAC 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

Kafka or other distributed messaging system

HTTP stack and building REST APIs

Distributed version control: Git or Mercurial

Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Banking experience

Be able to work in a multicultural work environment

Nice to have

Java, JS, and React

Actor system: Akka

Functional programming with Cats or ScalaZ

ScalaTest and BDD

Continuous integration & deployment practices

Open-minded and able to quickly learn new technologies and paradigms

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