Job Description
Who are we looking for
We’re looking for an experienced Scala developer who loves to build innovative and high-quality products.
As part of a senior and highly committed team you will use Scala’s latest patterns and libraries such as Zio, Cats, Akka to build core backend services for our products. You will come into contact with infrastructure such as Kafka and Kubernetes, expose your services as OpenAPI 3.0 services, and you will work in an environment where quality comes first enforced by automated continuous deployment procedures. Consumers of your services are both mobile apps and web apps managed by InvestSuite as well as 3rd party services and applications.
Main responsibilities
- Deploy applications that meet our customer’s highest demands in terms of performance, availability and security
- Design and implement clean and scalable public and internal APIs
- Take full responsibility for certain identified backend support components
Qualifications
Required skills & experience
- Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field - or equivalent professional experience
- At least 4 years of Scala experience (not counting education)
- Knowledge about / experience with:
- Zio ecosystem
- Akka
- Shapeless
- Monix
- Kafka
- English fluency - spoken & written
- Proactivity & problem solving skills. Proactive in solving risks and issues in a timely manner, or to re-prioritize on close collaboration with the product owner if required
- Experience with agile project approaches (Scrum)
Other skills & experience we would love to see
- Knowledge & experience with reactive architecture, microservices and containerization technologies such as Docker
- Expertise in writing unit tests and end to end platform integration tests
- Experience with automated build, test and deploy pipelines
- Knowledge of cloud and serverless architectures as well as infrastructure as code
- Passion for technologies for distributed messaging such as Kafka, Akka
Affinity with financial markets and wealth management
Top Skills
What We Do
The Alter Solutions Group is an IT Consultancy group, promoter of Digital Transformation, created in 2006, in Paris. In 2022, Alter Solutions joined the act digital group, constituting a global community of talent in Technology, with presence in twelve countries: Germany, Belgium, Brazil, United States of America, Canada, Morocco, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Serbia. In 2023, we were recertified as a Great Place to Work®. Know more about Life at Alter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alter-solutions-group/life/altersolutionsgroup
