Mid-Senior Scala back-end Engineer

About this job

Location options: Remote
Job type: Full-time
Experience level: Mid-Level
Role: Backend Developer
Industry: Big Data, eCommerce, Machine Learning
Company size: 1-10 people
Company type: Private

Technologies

scala, postgresql, akka, git, linux

Job description

As part of our engineering team you will be responsible for building our product, an advanced machine learning algorithm within search personalization for e-commerce. As demand for our product continues to increase, we are on a journey to grow the team substantially in 2019. We’d love for you to join us.

About the role:

You will be part of a small team that moves fast and iterates. We do weekly sprints, code reviews, testing, and put a lot of emphasis on code style, cleanliness and robustness. You will get to work with amazing engineers specializing in machine learning and distributed systems.

Your responsibilities include:

• Managing and improving Findify’s data pipelines - a crucial responsibility for us as Findify collects millions of data points every day to feed our machine learning algorithms
• Enhancing some of the critical components of our system to successfully integrate our customers’ products and improve our search capabilities
• Actively contributing to the overall design of our infrastructure and the application of our product vision

About you:

You are a creative problem-solver with passion for programming and building scalable architectures.

You are:

• Initiative-taking; you are self-motivated, a doer, and can drive projects from start to finish
• A team-player; you are comfortable working with different styles and believe (like us) that together we achieve much more than alone
• Driven; working hard to achieve a goal you care about and running several projects in parallel is no stranger to you
• A great communicator; you are comfortable in communicating in English both written and oral, including explaining your technical development to internal and external partners
• Located within time zone GMT and GMT +3

You have:

• A BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• At least 3 years of Scala work experience
• Experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with Akka Stream, Akka HTTP or Flink
• Experience with Git
• Working knowledge with Linux/Unix

We’d be extra impressed if you also have:

• Experience with AWS / key-value databases such as Cassandra / data-mining / machine learning / search frameworks such as Lucene / e-commerce platforms
• Dev-ops skills
• Experience in working in/with remote teams
• Experience in working in agile/lean methodologies
• A side project or blog that showcases your passion

We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better products we build and the better we are able to serve our customers. Women and other minorities under-represented in tech are strongly encouraged to apply.