Senior Scala Developer

Luxoft; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 12,00,000 - 18,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology consulting firm is seeking a Scala engineer to work on banking solutions within a large Tier One Bank. Candidates must have over 6 years of backend development experience and familiarity with Scala or other functional languages. This role emphasizes teamwork, troubleshooting, and improving developer experience in a multicultural environment. Strong communication and banking experience are key requirements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building back-end systems.
• 4+ years developing in Scala or other functional programming language.
• Experience with Unix shell and CLI tools.
• Open-minded and able to quickly learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with senior engineers to find the best possible technical solution.
• Provide banking solutions through Scala development.
• Troubleshoot production/infrastructure issues.

Skills

Scala development

Strong communication skills in English

TDD

Git or Mercurial

Banking experience

Ability to work in a multicultural work environment

Tools

Nexus repository software

Kafka

Gradle

Job description

Project description

Are you an enthusiastic technology professional? Are you excited about seeking an enriching career; working for a large Tier One Bank? We are seeking a Scala engineer to join our development team within the bank for an exciting opportunity, building on top of existing technology to be implemented across other APAC regions. You will work on a new and challenging project to implement banking systems, helping to shape the future of the Bank's business.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with senior engineers to find the best possible technical solution for the project and available requirements.
• Scala development to provide banking solutions.
• Experience using Nexus repository software.
• Working against a ticketing system with different priorities.
• Reporting key metrics.
• Post-go-live development of continuous improvement themes such as automation and whitelisting.
• Improve developer experience and make it easy to do the right thing.
• Challenge the team to follow best practices and eliminate process waste.
• Troubleshoot production/infrastructure issues.
• Be keen to expand current Scala/Java knowledge.

SKILLS

Must have

• 6+ years building back-end systems.
• 4+ years developing in Scala or other functional programming language.
• TDD.
• Distributed version control: Git or Mercurial.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Banking experience.
• Ability to work in a multicultural work environment.

Nice to have

• Java, JS, and React.
• Actor system: Akka.
• HTTP stack and building REST APIs.
• Functional programming with Cats or ScalaZ.
• ScalaTest and BDD.
• Continuous integration & deployment practices.
• Open-minded and able to quickly learn new technologies and paradigms.
• Kafka or other distributed messaging system.
• Distributed environments and multi-threading.
• Profiling and application tuning.
• Build tools: Gradle.
• Experience with Yaml, Json, and Xml (Xsd).
• Experience with Unix shell and CLI tools.
• Search engine, e.g., Solr, ElasticSearch.
• Search topic issues, e.g., building queries, indexing, etc.