Scala Engineer (relocation to Riga, Latvia)

Line manager

Scala/JavaScript Department Lead: link.

Why we are recommending

• Truly interesting technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Be proactive, pragmatic and professional, deliver results.
• Write code that make games and related functionality run.
• Write unit and other automated tests.
• Work and communicate efficiently with the rest of the development team, including PO, front-end developers and designers.
• Actively participate in code reviews, so that code delivered by you and your team is of great quality.
• Own your applications, ensure they deploy and run 24/7 on company Kubernetes platform with great performance.
• Be ready to invest the effort to become an even better developer.

Requirements

• Passion for their profession, in particular Scala and Functional Programming, and improving yourself technically.
• Proven experience in delivering production software using Scala or comparable experience, such as extensive JVM or Haskell experience.
• Interest in the latest programming trends, such as functional and reactive programming.
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent.

Will be a plus:

• Experience building high performance clustered systems, modular FP-based architecture, as well as actor systems, where they are necessary.
• Experience in Cats or Scalaz, Cats Effect, ZIO, Monix, Akka Actors, Persistence, Cluster & HTTP, http4s, Tagless Final or Scala.js.
• Experience with Event Sourcing & CQRS.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra.

Company offers

• Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time.
• Recognition from the business, which translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude.
• Developing games featuring live video, serving customers around the world.
• Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum or Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice).
• Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly traded company.
• Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, relocation package and other benefits and perks.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen.
• Test task.
• Technical interview.

Useful links

• Evolution Engineering — Culture and Technology video: link.
• Open source: link.
• Vera Nikalaikina, Scala Engineer at Evolution “Why Scala?”: link.
• Implement cache together, Yaroslav Klymko, Scala Engineer at Evolution: link.