Position: Scala developer
Company: Beetroot
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

Our client is a small and modern bank that builds the most flexible and innovative personal finance products. They give their clients full control of their finances. You will get a unique opportunity to work with forward-looking entrepreneurs, developers, and leaders who have been successful in starting and developing fintech companies for more than 10 years. Your main task will be to develop a new product from scratch.
In our collaboration model, you will work and communicate directly with the development team on the client side.
Responsibilities

 

Work in a team with other back end developers, front end developers, a product manager, and UX designers. The team will either the credit, cards, checkout or accounts team. The other team members will be in Stockholm and Gdansk
Using Scala to develop new features for the product working in two-week sprints together with the other team members
Sharing experiences and best practices for functional programming in Scala. Many (all) of the developers are passionate about this topic 🙂
Performing code reviews with and for team members
Integrating with partners in the FinTech space
Focus areas for next year: Launching new products, internationalization, integration between our product areas, building a stable and scalable platform
 
What we’re looking for:

At least 3 years of software engineering experience (1 of them with Scala).
If you’ve used Akka or have Actor Model experience from another language or technology you get a gold star
Good level of English (both spoken and written)
You love borsch!

Bonus:

You get that warm, fuzzy feeling when you think about Kubernetes and Docker
If you have code you can share in Bitbucket or on GitHub, we get that warm fuzzy feeling too
Apprentice wizard level knowledge in Kafka
Making yourself understood and communicating both your point and your reasoning. Swedes like what they call the “red thread” – or logical progression of thoughts. Extra points if you can do it succinctly. 
Naming five or more dishes that include beetroot, besides borsch.