Senior Scala Engineer

Senior Scala Engineer (Cats / Scalaz, Http4s, Circe and Doobie) – Broadcasting – London

Rate: 500 – 550 per day

Duration: 6 months

We are looking for a Scala engineer to work within a cross-functional team to deliver software that meets the clients Online’s business and operational requirements.

The clients Scala practices lean heavily towards pure typed functional programming, and we make heavy use of libraries that support that endeavour such as Cats / Scalaz, Http4s, Circe and Doobie.

Our Scala engineers are also encouraged to contribute to open source projects. We support our services with UI components written in Elm, but no-prior Elm experience is required.

Our teams are cross-functional and agile, we strive to follow Continuous Delivery practices, and our teams contain embedded Platform Engineers to support this goal.

The client promotes a DevOps culture and expect our developers to get involved with the testing and operation of our services and systems.

You will be passionate about Technology with a keen enthusiasm for Scala. You should be able to display some aptitude and experience working with Scala, but a wide range of technical, commercial and training backgrounds will be considered on a case by case basis.

You should be excited about working in a team of peers and learning as much as possible about Scala, its ecosystem and related tools and techniques.

To be considered for this opportunity, you will need to demonstrate the following skills:

• Scala development skills and knowledge of Scala ecosystem
• Good knowledge of at least one other programming language
• Knowledge of testing techniques and strategies
• Web services architecture, particularly REST and caching
• Experience with operational concerns
• Messaging system experience is also desirable
• High level knowledge of relational and NoSQL data stores
• Unix command line and basic systems administration
• Diagnosis of functional and performance problems
• Good team communication skills

Please do send an up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

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