Position: Middle/Senior Scala developer
Company: Akvelon Ukraine
Experience required: 5y
Category: Scala
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

Akvelon was founded in 2000. Akvelon’s corporate headquarters is located in Bellevue, Washington, and presently employs about 800 people around the globe. 
Representative office in Ukraine, Kharkiv, was opened in November 2008 and presently employs about 200 people.
Companies, such as Reddit, Starbucks, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Tideworks, and many more, have greatly benefited from working with Akvelon’s talented employees.
We **offer** our employees **a chance to be relocated to the USA to our customers' HQ.**

**Project:** Health Core Infrastructure Team 
We’re gathering the team of 5 Scala Backend and Full stack (React.js and Scala) developers, to become a part of Health Core Infrastructure Team -  a team that builds and maintains the core infrastructure helping to protect the health of the public conversation. Interesting technical challenges -- real-time feature computation and rules engine runs thousands of rules on half a million events per second -- as well as internal and external customer impact.  You’ll build and maintain the large-scale, low latency distributed systems that power real-time feature computation, rule engine, and data exploration tools that keep spam, abuse, and adversarial accounts off social network. 

**Here are some daily duties of the role:**
- Extend the functionality of the platform, including new language features and new integrations with other systems, to serve our customers’ needs.
- Profile and stress test to surface inefficiencies in our system.
- Tune cache and storage to optimize our runtime performance.
- Diagnose issues and debug across the entire stack.
- Work with platform services we depend on, including storage, messaging and data platform teams.

**Who You Are:**
- You’ve built and maintained a large-scale distributed system before and have the scars to prove it.
- You value deleted code -- and code never written -- just as much as the code that you do write.
- You’re willing to be coached and to coach others.
- You know when it’s okay to take on technical debt and you eventually pay it down.
- You can balance quality work vs customer requests vs new features.
- You can make the right product and technical decisions independently.

**Qualifications:**
- Fluency with Scala =)
- Feel equally comfortable with SQL and noSQL data storage systems, 
- Experience with designing, improving, and debugging complex, scalable distributed systems
- Experience with writing tests for production software
- Experience with operating production software in a UNIX/Linux environment
- Some familiarity with classical computer science algorithms (e.g. tree traversal)

**What do we offer:**
- To attend challenging projects from world-known companies
- Opportunity for self-realization, career and professional growth
- Official employment with competitive compensation
- Opportunity to go on international business trips
- Paid vacation, sick-leave
- Flexible working schedule
- Official national\state holidays are days off (11 days)
- Corporate events
- English classes & speaking clubs
- Library with contemporary professional literature
- Friendly team
- Comfortable working environment or remote work