Senior and Mid-level Backend Engineers

Summary

Join our cross-functional teams to deliver software meeting project business and operational requirements using Scala, a language that emphasizes pure-typed functional programming. Our Scala engineers contribute to open-source projects. We are passionate about software engineering and fostering a supportive learning environment. If you are based in Europe or Brazil, you will collaborate closely with a team, designing, developing, and maintaining robust software. You will contribute to our product roadmap, participate in system design, write automated tests, collaborate with stakeholders, deploy services in AWS, and work with event-driven architectures. We offer opportunities for growth and development within an agile environment.

Requirements

• You’ll have a few years of solid Scala experience under your belt (+4 years), with a good understanding of functional programming principles and software design
• You are comfortable working independently on well-defined tasks and collaborating with more senior engineers to solve complex problems
• You bring extensive hands-on Scala experience and are highly proficient in system architecture, functional programming, and technical leadership
• You are confident in leading design discussions, mentoring less experienced developers, and driving continuous improvements in code quality and team processes
• You will be expected to take ownership of significant components of the system and influence broader technical decisions
• Scala development skills and knowledge of the Scala ecosystem
• Can show an understanding of pure functional programming
• Good knowledge of at least one other programming language
• Unit testing ability and understanding of how to structure testable code
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins, etc)
• Ability to build highly available, scalable and concurrent systems
• Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL (or similar relational DBs)
• Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka or similar)
• Familiarity with deploying services on AWS
• Understanding of the SCRUM methodology and agile best practices
• Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining robust software using Scala
• Contributing to the implementation of our product roadmap
• Participating in system design sessions and team meetings, offering well-reasoned technical input
• Writing and maintaining automated tests to ensure code correctness and reliability
• Collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements and define feasible solutions
• Deploying and operating services in AWS
• Working with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka)

Preferred Qualifications

• Messaging (NATS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc)
• Exposure to Golang
• Unix command line and basic systems administration
• Diagnosis of functional and performance problems

Benefits

• Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues, and help create our company culture
• A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
• An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
• The possibility to grow and experience different projects
• Fully remote
• Ongoing Training & Mentoring
• The possibility of travelling