Senior Scala Engineer - Distributed Systems

Summary

Join commercetools as a Scala Engineer and work with a team of experienced professionals in a dynamic international environment. You will design, implement, and test mission-critical APIs for a modern e-commerce platform, contributing to a scalable and multi-tenant architecture. Collaborate with product management and other engineering teams to meet functional and non-functional requirements. The role involves on-call rotation and requires expertise in JVM languages, backend services, and cloud platforms. You will be proactive in proposing solutions and improvements, weighing trade-offs within a cross-functional team. The company values a diverse and inclusive workplace and offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Experience in building modern and scalable backend services on the JVM and cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Familiarity with JVM languages (preferably Scala), or other functional programming languages
• Openness to experiment with new technologies and changing tech stacks
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks
• Experience extending HTTP services and APIs, including concepts for authentication and service-to-service communication
• Ability to bring your ideas and be proactive in proposing solutions and improvements to the codebase
• Ability to weigh trade-offs through discussions working within a cross-functional team
• Be able to write and speak English fluently

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test mission-critical API’s in a PaaS eCommerce Scala backend
• Develop a scalable and multi-tenant architecture
• Work closely with Product Management to understand the business needs and finding appropriate technical solutions
• Contribute to the definition of the team roadmap
• Ensure that functional and non-functional requirements (performance, security) are met
• Collaborate with engineers from different teams to ensure technical excellence of the whole platform
• Take part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with GraphQL
• Experience interacting with (or implementing) the OAuth standard
• Experience working with multi-tenant systems
• Experience working with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Experience in defining, working with, and optimizing CI pipelines, as well as deploying services with Kubernetes

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Package: Generous compensation structure consisting of salary, a competitive stock option package, and various benefits and perks
• Workation: Work u p to 60 days per year in a country different from your home country, with 20 working days per trip
• Learning & Development Budget
• Exchange & Exploration Time : 10% of your time can be used for your self-driven growth and collaboration on self-picked projects
• Academy: Regular training sessions, access to Coursera and Babbel training courses
• Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated employees