Position: Middle/Senior Scala Developer
Company: Sigma Software
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We love technology and think that apps are all about personal touch and user experience. We truly believe we can influence that in products we touch. We love to learn and share knowledge.

If you are a positive thinker with excellent communication skills who is able to start new projects, help to 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 fashion industry that allows users selling customized or rare clothes and accessories. It provides a way to recycle unwanted items for money.

The customer is pretty successful, has raised more than $100 million of investments since the project has more than 15 million active users.

PROJECT:

The project is a social shopping platform – 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Contributing to new technologies investigations and complex solutions design
Coming up with well-designed technical solutions and robust code
Working and professionaly communicating with 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

REQUIREMENTS:

Experience with Scala 2.13+
Understanding of Scala standard library (advanced FP libraries upon request)
Scala-logging with Logback back-end
Experience with Play framework
Experience with Postgres 11.5
Experience with RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka
Upper-Intermediate level of English