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Spark/Scala Engineer

Back-End Web.

Senior
Upper-Intermediate English

Required Skills

Scala
Scala

Nice to Have

Scala SBT
Apache Spark
Apache Spark
Scalatest
SQL
SQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Agile
Agile
Kafka
Kafka
AWS
AWS
Azure
Azure
Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Summary

- Experience working as a Scala developer on enterprise-scale solutions;
- Skilled in Scala, sbt, and functional programming principles;
- Experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing;
- Familiar with SQL databases (Postgres) and query writing;
- Skilled in ScalaTest and Agile development practices;
- Nice to have: Kafka, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes;
- Location: EU only;
- Start: ASAP;
- Duration: until 24.06.

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About the role

As a Spark/Scala Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team that is working with a leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial crime prevention, manufacturing, media, and IT service management. Since its founding in 2017, our client has served 1500+ Enterprise customers globally and has grown to 2,500 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals across over 20 countries.

Responsibilities:

  • Learn the Financial Services Fraud and Compliance domains and gain a deep understanding of the problems that Financial Institutions across the globe need solving;
  • Implement features according to our high-quality standards;
  • Actively participate in technical design workshops and produce technical specification documents as requested;
  • Assume development responsibility for developing, debugging, and unit testing of product features by internal procedures and standards;
  • Diagnose and solve functional and performance/scalability issues;
  • Develop functionality that meets the team's DoD or/and collaborate with the team to resolve open product issues;
  • Join and contribute to our professional communities.

Skills and Experience: 

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent;
  • 2 – 5 years of commercial experience in large-scale enterprise solutions;
  • Proven track record of technical design and development as part of a team.

Essential:

  • Programming Languages – Scala, 2+ years;
  • Technologies – Apache Spark;
  • Proven track record of technical design and development as part of a team.

Desirable:

  • Testing frameworks – ScalaTest;
  • Database and SQL development experience;
  • Databases - Postgres;
  • Agile development methodologies;
  • Tools - sbt.

Nice to have: 

  • Apache Kafka;
  • AWS, Azure;
  • Experience in Kubernetes.

Not your tech stack?

Join the Upstaff community and we are looking for the best project for you. Be ready for the next steps:

  • Create your profile on our website (import from LinkedIn)
  • 20-30-minute screening call
  • Technical interview
  • Feedback
  • Project Selection (we are looking for the best project for you).

We work with developers from 50+ countries in different regions: Europe, LATAM, the U.S. (W-9 form owners), Canada, Asia (Philippines, Indonesia), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea), and the the UK.

  • We don’t have a legal and ethical basis to accept applicants from the following countries: Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea
  • We do not provide visa assistance, and our cooperation model does not include the benefits typically offered with direct hire.
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