Scala Backend Developer

About the project
You will be part of a backend team that develops solutions for one of our games and is responsible for the end-to-end. Together with game designers and product owners you will discuss, set priorities and decide about new features. All technology choices are available at your disposal, as long as they work and have been approved by other team members.
Most of our services are implemented in Scala with a heavy focus on functional programming. We deploy them to Kubernetes. We use Kafka as an event streaming platform.

Your responsibilities
Developing, maintaining, and testing game and data services;
Developing, maintaining, and testing game and data services developing infrastructure;
Automating things;
Developing an efficient team process;
Discussing technology and architecture choices with the team;
Having a direct impact on the product.

Our requirements
Has broad general technical knowledge — and knows specific subjects in-depth;
Has experience leading architecture of a large system;
Is focused on team and company goals and their effective delivery;
Feels accountable for the team performance;
Builds trust by showing and admitting their vulnerabilities;
Debates productively within the whole company;
Is able to listen and react constructively to ideas from less experienced people;
Shares team’s failures openly and constructively;
Leads by example in both technical and organizational domains;
Reacts with pragmatism and positivity in the face of challenging situations;
Is great at sharing information;
Seeks and is able to give and receive feedback, especially negative ones;
Competency in Scala 2;
REST API development;
Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka;
Knowledge of Cats, http4s;
Experience with databases, especially Elasticsearch, Couchbase, MySQL.