Scala Backend Developer

Location – Houston, TX

Duration – 6 – 12 months

Job Description:

The Backend Developer develops Cloud micro-services, infrastructure and web applications to support PaaS, IaaS and CaaS applications. There is one cloud project where the backend services are mostly built with Scala language, and hence the position is particularly targeted for experienced Scala developers. The position reports to the software project manager.

Requirements:

Background

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related

Technical skills – Must haves

• 3+ years recent working experiences with Scala programming language
• Strong working experiences with Akka Actor System
• Working experiences of containerization technologies - Docker, Kubernetes
• Experiences with Go, Python, Bash, Linux
• Strong understanding of multi-threading and distributed applications
• Solid knowledge of Restful architecture and use cases
• Knowledge of security principles (Oauth2, JWT, OpenAPI)
• Knowledge of application networking and troubleshooting
• Experienced in application profiling and bottleneck analysis
• Experiences of continuous integration and continuous delivery (Jenkins etc.)
• Experienced in modular design and library development for reuse
• Basic knowledge of NoSQL database