Senior Scala Software Engineer

Role: Senior Scala Software Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid-3 times a week onsite is mandatory)

Work Model Details: Monday and Wednesday in office

Duration: 10 Months

Shift: M-F, 8am - 5pm

Must Haves:

· 5+ years of software development experience using Java 8+

· 5+ years of Scala programming experience

· 4+ years of Akka technologies such as Streams, Actors, HTTP, Persistence.

Must Have Skills/Attributes: AWS, CI/CD tools, Microservices, Scala

Experience Desired:

Hands-on experience building enterprise backend applications. (8+ yrs),

Scala Programming (3+ yrs),

Akka Framework (Streams, Actors, HTTP, Persistence) (2+ yrs),

AWS Cloud & Microservices Architecture (5+ yrs),

CI/CD & Agile Software Development (3+ yrs)

Job Description:

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years or Masters Degree with 8+ years

Required Qualifications:

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build platform notification services

that enable CLIENT customers to be alerted for events that are critical to efficiently operate CLIENT engines and machines.

Typical task breakdown:

• As a Senior Software Engineer you will be is

responsible for development of services using Scala and Akka technologies

• Competent to perform all programming, project

management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.

• Works directly on complex application/technical

problem identification and resolution

• Works independently on complex systems or

infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.

• Drives application development focused around

delivering business valuable features

• Mentors and assists software engineers,

providing technical assistance and direction as needed

• Maintains high standards of software quality

within the team by establishing good practices and habits

• Identifies and encourage areas for growth and

improvement within the team

• Guides the team to develop structured

application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment

• Communicates with end users and internal

customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness

• Performs integration testing and customer

acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.

• Employee is also responsible for performing

other job duties as assigned by CLIENT management from time to time.

Required Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of software development experience

using Java 8+

• 3+ years of Scala programming experience

• 2+ years of Akka technologies such as Streams,

Actors, HTTP, Persistence

Top candidates will also have:

• Experience with design and implementation of

high-availability and reliable solutions

• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining

software at scale.

• Application architectural patterns, such as MVC,

Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as

Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.

• Deploying and maintaining software using AWS.

Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, CloudFormation, etc.

• Developing software applications using

relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, AWS DynamoDB

• Working within an Agile framework (ideally

Scrum)

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer

Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.

• Passion for technology and an eagerness to

contribute to a team-oriented environment

• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale

projects impacting strategic priorities

Nice to Have:

• Experience designing well-defined Spring Boot

Restful APIs

• Experience in functional programming

• Exposure to type level and Zio framework

• Exposure to Reactive Streaming