Senior Scala Backend Engineer

Senior Scala Backend Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Senior Scala Backend Engineer. This is a 12+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Denver, CO (Onsite).

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Code and perform unit and integration testing of software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements.
• Code, test, debug, and enhance software.
• Write programs according to specifications, and define specifications for complex programs.
• Monitor and repair critical systems on an as needed basis.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation.
• Serve as final escalation point to resolve incidents and problems for production applications and web services supported by the team in accordance with identified Service Level Agreements.
• Collaborate with internal customers, technical and architecture teams to solve complex software problems.
• Provide system users and management with system analysis and improvement recommendations.
• Identify and recommend system design/requirements needs for software enhancements.
• Implement, monitor, test, and audit new software programs to maximize efficiency of software systems.
• Participate in continuous performance improvement sessions to discuss opportunities to improve processes and/or standards.
• Coordinate with technical teams to analyze and resolve software related problems causing operational difficulties, advising on specialized features and functions.
• Maximize the efficiency of the various software systems by implementing, monitoring, testing and auditing new software programs.
• Follow established configuration/change control processes.
• Collaborate with customers and internal/external technical teams to identify software problems and communicate remediation plans
• Mentor and coach junior team members.

Key Requirements and Technology

Experience:

• Key skills:
  Scala, Kafka, microservices, REST API.
• Strong experience with Scala back end API implementation.
• Understanding of MongoDB or other No
  
  SQL databases.
• Strong mindset with a willingness to learn new domains and technologies.
• Expertise in end-to-end understanding of the system and testing the services.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience using AWS managed services.
• Experience with caching architectures, particularly Memcached.
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).
• Strong experience with monitoring technologies (Client, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).
• Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI).
• Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab).
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Strong experience working with Dev Ops engineers to build and deploy infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.
• Strong Understanding of Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.
• Experience with building and designing REST APIs using scala.
• Experience with software security principles and patterns.
• Ability to collaborate with and contribute to a common culture of excellence.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Must be capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.

Our client is a leader in the IT industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.