Scala Developer

Location:
London
Job Type:
Contract
Industry:
Digital Workspace
Job reference:
BBBH134631_1616597121
Posted:
about 3 years ago

Scala Developer (Functional)

6 months

West London (remote until further notice)

*Inside IR35

Client Overview:

Our client is Europe's leading entertainment company and serves over 22 million customers across five countries! They are home to award-winning teams for everything from Customer Service to Marketing, from Technology to Finance, meaning there's plenty of opportunity for you, no matter what your career goals.

What you'll do:

  • Deliver production-ready, tested software in small increments
  • Take a proactive role on production issues and release management
  • Support and maintain the live product (including first line support) along with the development team
  • Collaborate with technical analysts and testers in the creation of backlog items, providing information such as cost estimates and technical risk
  • Take an active role in story definition, working closely with testers and business stakeholders to identify and ensure acceptance criteria are satisfied
  • Participate and lead when appropriate in daily stand-up meetings, reviews and retrospectives, contributing to the team's technical direction and the improvement of its tools and processes

What you'll bring:

  • Solid commercial experience as a Scala developer (ideally Functional)
  • Be able to provide examples of where you have worked on High Scalable systems or High TPS Api's have you worked on
  • Strong TDD/BDD and unit testing skills
  • Strong experience of Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong NFT testing skills with experience of Gatling
  • Passion for Agile software delivery and pair programming best practices
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery practices
  • Background in software development for high traffic, high availability large scale backend systems
  • Experience working in high volume environment / high traffic production type clients (eCommerce, Betting backgrounds)
  • Background in monitoring tools such as Grafana/Prometheus etc
  • Enthusiasm/aptitude for learning new skills and practices

Tech Stack:

You can also expect to work with loads of Java, Scrum, Kanban, RESTful Web Services/APIs, Extreme Programming (XP), Reactive Systems, Microservices Architecture, testing tools (ScalaTest) and mocking frameworks (Mockito), Cloud-Based Service Delivery, Akka, Spray, Play, Redis, Spring MVC, JPA, Hibernate, Architectural/Integration Design Patterns, Git, Unix/Linux, Cassandra, SQL and other NoSQL databases.

Suitable candidates should submit their CV in the first instance

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