Senior Scala Developer

Summary

Join Tala's mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority by building and extending the company's backend architecture as a Senior Backend Engineer.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
• 5+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: Scala, Go, Kotlin, Java
• Strong TDD quality engineering practice
• Developed and launched large-scale consumer applications with the backend on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) using a microservices architecture paradigm
• Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)
• Strong non-relational database experience (Cassandra, Redis)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
• Collaborate and support cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solve problems using the most appropriate technology
• Contribute to the complete migration of the legacy codebase to a microservices architecture
• Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules