Position: Scala Backend Developer with Java
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: Long Term

Contract C2C

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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

Technical skills – Better to have

• Experiences with Java Spring Framework
• Some experience with C/C++/programming language
• Experience with Google cloud platform and developing applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform
• Knowledge of tradeoffs among PaaS, CaaS and IaaS cloud-based solutions
• Experienced in application performance optimization (including networking)
• Experience with RPC and / or WebSocket architectures
• Has setup CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, VSTS or similar tools

General skills

• Learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills. Capable of juggling multiple projects and related complexities at the same time.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Have a good understanding of latest technology trends for developing back end for Cloud applications
• Work on a wide variety of tasks using emerging technologies

Sridhar G

P: 919-234-7515

E: Sridhar(at)torquetek(dot)com

Torque Technologies is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” and “Those authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship are encouraged to applies & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.”