Senior Scala Developer

Mobilunity is a Ukrainian-based and operated provider of software engineering teams. Our typical clients are European, American and Japanese startups and small-to-mid sized companies working with our teams as permanent and equal extensions to their own software departments. With our collaboration model, engineers get direct access to the client’s technical management and work hand-in-hand with their peers both on the client’s side and in Ukraine. We as the Vendor ensure all non-tech questions are solved in a supportive manner. Joining Mobilunity you will get the best from both worlds – strong support and a big community locally, and an ambitious international team.

On behalf of our Client from the UK, Mobilunity is looking for a Senior Scala Developer.

Our Customer is an eCommerce expert with a proven track record in rail ticketing, web and mobile software development. They focus on public transport software products. The company started at the end of 2014 with five people and has since grown to over 20 members of staff, more than half of which are developers. The company now serves a long list of clients including Southern, Southeastern, Thameslink, Great Northern, and Gatwick Express railway.

Our current technology:

• Scala, Cats, Akka, Doobie, Http4s, Slick
• Messaging and Queues using RabbitMq and Fs2
• AWS RDS Aurora
• Docker containers in a microservice architecture
• Swagger/OpenAPI and guardrail for API generation

Must have skills:

• 5 years+ commercial experience in software development specifically in REST APIs
• 3 years+ commercial experience with Scala
• 3 years+ experience with queue based systems
• 3 years+ experience with relational databases
• Experience integrating 3rd party applications
• Experience with Jira
• Experience agile approaches
• Confident level of English (at least upper-intermediate to handle all communications)

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and Github Actions

You will:

• Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements
  process for new products and features
• Design and build Rest APIs from start all the way to the delivery into the production environment
• Work with the QA team to ensure features meet all requirements
• Contribute to the business as usual ad hoc work log
• Respond to and resolve production platform issues

In return we offer:

• The friendliest community of like-minded IT-people
• Open knowledge-sharing environment – exclusive access to a rich pool of colleagues willing to share their endless insights into the broadest variety of modern technologies
• Mobilunity Medical Insurance program designed to attend our teams’ needs
• Paid vacations and sick leaves, including 5 paid days per year that don’t require a sick note
• Fair salary and 100% taxes coverage – don’t worry about possible taxes raise – we will get you covered
• Perfect office location in the city-center (900m from Lukyanivska metro station with a green and spacious neighborhood) or remote mode engagement: you can choose a convenient one for you, with a possibility to fit together both
• No open-spaces setup – separate rooms for every team’s comfort and multiple lounge and gaming zones on all of the 3 floors
• English classes in 1-to-1 & group modes with elements of gamification
• Neverending fun: sports events, tournaments, music band, multiple affinity groups

Come on board, and let’s grow together!