Position: Scala Developer
Company: Beetroot
Experience required: 3y
Category: Scala
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our client is a modern **Swedish bank** that builds the most flexible and innovative personal finance products, which give their customers complete control of their finances. 
Technology and forward-thinking design are the foundation of the application. The focus is to create better ways for customers to manage and interact with their finances. 
You will get a unique opportunity to work with forward-looking entrepreneurs, developers, and leaders who have successfully started and developed fintech companies for more than ten years.
As a Scala developer, you will have the opportunity to help us shape the way we build our backend systems and scale it to hundreds of thousands of users.
We’re looking for someone with a strong technical foundation who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You should enjoy working closely with designers, product managers, and front-end engineers to deliver a world-class product.

In our collaboration model, you will work and communicate directly with all teams on the client side.

**Responsibilities: **
- Work with cutting-edge technology like ZIO, Cats, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Evolve our tech stack. We mainly use ZIO but we have a few legacy services written in Akka that we're looking to migrate
- Functional programming
- Design, build and maintain APIs
- Think through and help plan systems and services while writing quality code
- Work in a collaborative and agile environment involving different stakeholders and an evolving family of products and services

**What we’re looking for:**
- Professional experience building software and systems. We don’t care much about what programming languages you know, as long as you have a strong interest in learning and working with Scala
- An ability to quickly understand and learn new systems and processes
- An ability to lead, execute, and deliver high-quality technical solutions
- Excellent communicator in English

**Bonus:**
- Have code you can share in Bitbucket or on GitHub, we would love to see what you have been working on
- Our tech stack includes Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker, so an understanding of how those work will be beneficial