Scala Developer at DataArt

Our client is one of the biggest online retailers worldwide with a yearly revenue of £2+ billion, the headquarters based in the UK. Built to change the nature of grocery e-commerce globally, our custom-designed solutions are uniquely capable of meeting the complex and developing expectations of shoppers while driving better productivity, greater flexibility, and higher margins for grocery retailers online. We have a long history of relationships and over the years have helped the client to develop web portals and mobile apps, delivery control systems, staff management tools, data storage, and much more.

SRE team with the goals: Maintaining a warehouse management system for a UK retailer (19 various services written mostly in Scala with some Java/JS code).
— Deploying those services to warehouses Providing 24/7 support (in office and out of office hours) of applications — paid extra
— Maintenance includes security updates, bugfixes, performance improvements, configuration changes, internal documentation updating

— Planning and building a contemporary documentation system that would help us take in more services with a small team.
— Improving observability platform around these services.

Team of 5 (4 developers and Team leader)
8 AM to 4 PM UK time
Support rota — daily in a cycle with other team members. (flexible schedule, you can change days with other team members)
There is a 24/7 support rota, with each team member covering a week in the cycle. The schedule is flexible, allowing you to change days, weeks, etc., with other team members

Position overview

We are looking for a Scala Developer.
Probation Period Goals:
First Month: Successful onboarding to code/apps domain
Second Month: Successful onboarding to daily support (backlog tasks and in-office hours support)
Third Month: Successful onboarding to out-of-office support

Requirements

• Experience with Scala (main)
• Experience with Java (at least some)
• Experience with One of Cats Effect or Zio (preferably both)
• Familiarity with Gitlab pipelines
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS services and infrastructure (RDS, ECS, SQS, CloudWatch)
• Familiarity with Observability tools (Kibana, Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana)
• A comfortable level of English, enabling effective communication and collaboration across the company structure
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Proactive outlook, enabling independent decision-making and taking responsibility
• Good documentation skills and process diligence
• Troubleshooting/incident experience or the willingness to learn, coupled with the ability to manage stress effectively
• Ability to align with down-to-earth business goals

Nice to have

• Some Python + AI wrapper writing experience
• Some GCP familiarity

We offer

• Professional Development:
— Experienced colleagues who are ready to share knowledge;
— The ability to switch projects, technology stacks, try yourself in different roles;
— More than 150 workplaces for advanced training;
— Study and practice of English: courses and communication with colleagues and clients from different countries;
— Support of speakers who make presentations at conferences and meetings of technology communities.
• The ability to focus on your work: a lack of bureaucracy and micromanagement, and convenient corporate services;
• Friendly atmosphere, concern for the comfort of specialists;
• Flexible schedule (there are core mandatory hours), the ability to work remotely upon agreement with colleagues.

2024-05-20T13:51:02.000 2024-06-20T23:59:59.000 Full time TELECOMMUTE Ukraine DataArt