Blue Orange Digital Sr. Scala Engineer

**** We do except remote applicants but due to legal requirements, they must be North America based, no exceptions can be made. *****

Job Description

Seeking a Sr. Scala Engineer to help develop and provide architectural input on a trade processing and aggregation platform for a large financial institution. We are looking for an experienced Scala/Akka developer with strong multi-threaded development knowledge. Should have experience with the Lightbend reactive architecture.

An ideal candidate should be self-driven, experienced and detail-focused. Comfortable with technical problem-solving to convert a business solution into a high-quality drive and scalable technology solutions. We are a remote development agency and developers must make a concerted effort to assist and collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, remote pair programming, and proactive communication. 

Preference is given to candidates with experience in: 

• Akka


• Kafka


• AWS


• OpenShift


• Kubernetes

Qualifications:

• 5 years minimum experience with Scala and experience as a Sr Developer on a production scale applications


• Experience working with agile development practices (this project uses Jira)


• Familiarity with AWS


• Comfort with Docker


• A strong understanding of concurrent, parallel, and distributed systems


• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science

The ideal candidate:

• Motivated by a passion to create highly fault-tolerant apps with excellent design practices


• Enjoys collaborating with other engineers on architecture and sharing designs with the team 


• Has experience working remotely


• Interacts with others using sound judgment, good humor, and consistent fairness in a fast-paced environment