Back-End Scala Engineer
Prestige Staffing
This is a Full-time position in Reston, VA posted May 28, 2021.
The Back-End Scala Engineer designs and develops code alongside a growing multi-disciplinary team of Data Scientists, Engineers, and Solutions Experts.
- Develop Scala applications and services using tools like Akka and Akka HTTP for RESTful services
- Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
- Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
- Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
- Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments
Qualifications
- 2+ years of development expertise
- Expert knowledge of Scala, sbt, and Maven, git
- Experience with well-known Scala libraries, including Akka, Spark, Shapeless
- Experience with RESTful API development and agile development
- Testing and software QA experience, including performance profiling, static analysis, and dynamic analysis
Desirable
- Experience with containerization of complex services, load testing and previous deployments of production systems to AWS
- Experience with any of these tools, Docker, Jenkins, Gatling, OpenAPI/Swagger, Scala.js, Grunt, Bower, Lift
