Software Engineer (Scala) (closed)

Mobilunity is a provider of dedicated development teams aiming to bring European corporate culture to the Ukrainian IT-labor market. Throughout all the years of our existence and until now, we’ve been working hand in hand with European companies as our primary partners. By our own example, we are proving that the dedicated team model works the best in all directions including employee’s interests as people have always been our main asset. Joining Mobilunity you won’t ever feel alone.

On behalf of our Client from Japan, Mobilunity is looking for a Software Engineer (Scala) for a long-term engagement.

About project:
Our client is a fast-growing fintech company based in Tokyo. The company offers its real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan. Our client started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for e-commerce customers in October 2014. The main product is an online payment platform which requires no pre-registration or credit card to use; via this service the customers can purchase products online using only a mobile phone number and email address and settle a single monthly bill for all their purchases, either at a convenience store, by bank transfer or auto debit. Customers can use credit funds during a month and then return the balance to zero without paying credit interests.

This service also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions. There are currently over 4 million accounts in use. This service got the largest investment to date in the Japanese financial tech industry, including PayPal Ventures investment.

Technical stack on the project:

• Back-end: Scala, Cats/Cats-effect
• Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka
• ElasticSearch
• Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudformation, ECS, Fargate
• Hexagonal architecture
• Web front-end: React, Redux, Webpack (SPA)
• Mobile: React Native

Responsibilities:

• design, develop, and deliver new features on our RESTful API gateways and backend services
• collaborate with distributed and multidisciplinary teams
• assist in requirements identification and in producing specifications
• contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures

Requirements:

• knowledge of Functional Programming, Scala, and the Typelevel ecosystem
• understanding of software architecture and design with the ability to align the overall service architecture
• experience with building distributed systems, scalability and high throughput software
• experience with maintaining and further developing existing code bases
• comfortable with knowledge sharing, working on a team and building relationships
• shows interest in the organization’s engineering strategy, product development strategy and how that aligns to the overall business strategy
• ability to define task outlines and deliverables
• demonstrates a sense of urgency when required
• ability to manage some ambiguity and exercises good judgment when needed
• ability to give and receive constructive feedback tactfully upstream and downstream
• excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams
• level of English – Upper and higher

Nice to have:

• experience with Akka Cluster, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
• experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS
• understanding of JVM internals and performance optimization
• experience with CircleCI, AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Datadog
• experience working on a payment platform or other fintech field

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!