Senior Scala/Java Backend Developer

Senior Scala/Java Backend Developer

Job Description

Description:

Major Purpose:

Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver functionality for the complete product or products it supports. This level designs complex/significant parts of a system/sub-system or works on a complete product of a broad scope and solves well-defined problems with little guidance. May act as a work lead, providing technical coaching to other engineers and support personnel; Recognized as an expert user of critical technology; develops new software functionality for product development.

Major Duties:
Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
Mentors junior software engineers on the team.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.
Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment Education:
Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:
Previous experience in programming/software development. (4 - 7 years)
Software development processes experience. (4 - 7 years)
Product design, test and/or analysis experience. (4 - 7 years)
Participating in Agile Development (4 - 7 years)
Experience working in an Agile Environment (4 - 7 years)



Specific Position Requirements
JOB DUTIES: Working within an agile team, develop scalable backend software, using TDD. Develop Scala/Java applications running in an AWS environment.

REQUIRED experience:
5+ years hands-on experience with Scala
Profound insight of Scala Internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Concurrency, Futures, Multithreading.)
Building low-latency & high volume, distributed, scalable and reliable backend systems
RESTFul APIs


PREFERRED experience:
AWS
Cats Effect, Http4s, Fs2, Akka
Spring
Frontend experience a plus
Client experience a plus


Notes:
Shift 1

Candidates must have strong verbal communication skills and be able to describe their experience in details and explain their thought process in how they solve certain problems.

Looking for strong senior backend Scala/Java developer preferably with AWS Cloud experience
A coding exercise is required as part of the interview process.
Position will be onsite until further notice

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status