Scala Developer Job Description

Scala Developer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Scala Developer to join our team.

Work with a team of peers to architect, design and implement our new platform and supporting applications in the latest technologies;
Identify, research and implement new technologies that improve efficiency, responsiveness, resiliency, and/or ease of development;
Apply technology to strategically solve business challenges;
Continuously improve, refine, and refactor software;
Collaborate with Quality Assurance engineers in test case construction, issue identification, as well as remediation and automation;
Responsible for developing, enhancing, re-engineering & maintaining applications with Scala;
Drive strategic and tactical roll-out of solutions to clients;
Contribute to the overall design and architecture of the application developed and deployed;
Interact with business users to understand requirements and troubleshoot issues.

A commitment to developing solid, tested, high performing valuable software;
Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly assess problems and determine proper steps to resolution;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Extra credit if you have signed the Reactive Manifesto and are familiar with Reactive Programming concepts;
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Git, Team City or similar tools;
Ability to break down large projects into individual stories and MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) highly preferred;
2+ years of development using Akka or similar frameworks;
Understand, articulate, and conform to core functional and OOP programming principles;
Front end development using PlayUI;
Design and Development of web and enterprise applications using Scala and Akka;
Knowledge in DevOps;
Design and development of Rest API using Scala;
Test Driven Development using SBT;
Fluency in DDL and DML using MongoDB and Cassandra;
Source code control using Git.