Remote Senior Back-end Developer (Scala)

Summary

Join our innovative team as a Senior Back End Engineer to lead the evolution of our payment processing platform, architecting and maintaining internal and customer-facing applications, ensuring high standards for quality, global payment integration, scalability, security, and seamless partner ecosystem expansion.

Requirements

• Experience with Scala developing professional backend software. Other JVM or functional language experience may substitute
• Experience designing, implementing, monitoring, and debugging large-scale solutions in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc
• Knowledgeable in event sourcing systems utilizing streams and events. Practical experience with ApacheKafka is preferred while experience using AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, AMQP, or other relevant systems is acceptable
• Knowledgeable in SQL and RDBMS environments. Practical experience with AWS RDS (MySQL or Postgres engines) is preferred while experience using other RDBMS is acceptable
• Knowledgeable in NoSQL datastores utilizing JSON data structures

Responsibilities

• Provide secure and highly available access to partners and merchants to interact with our API platform
• Learn and develop expertise in Scala functional programming and related frameworks
• Create and drive the technical design of backend capabilities
• Support software deployments, including debugging, troubleshooting, and coordination with DevOps and QA Engineers
• Investigate, resolve, and document root cause for technical issues in production
• Develop and monitor software system validation procedures and automated tests
• Research and propose new technologies, industry trends, and best practices to propel our team and product forward
• Work in a close-knit team environment to achieve engineering goals and make a difference
• Mentor and proactively lead in areas of expertise within team and engineering organization

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Work with a supportive and collaborative team
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• Flexible work environment