Tala is hiring a
Senior Scala Developer in India

Summary

The Senior Backend Engineer will build and extend Tala's backend architecture to support new country launches, products, and features, collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, proficiency in Scala, Go, Kotlin, Java, and a strong TDD quality engineering practice.

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