Senior Scala Developer

At Rocker, technology makes up the core of our business, and we are building it with highly skilled, talented, and ambitious people. To improve our product and business decisions as we continue to scale, Rocker is searching for Senior Scala Developers to join and help lead our teams to continue building the most innovative personal finance app on the market!

As a Senior Scala Developer, you will work on important projects that have profound impact on the company, support your Technical Lead in making overarching architectural choices for the company, and help guide and mentor more junior colleagues on our team of talented backend developers. You will collaborate with our frontend and design teams to improve our app, identify risks, and help lead and inspire your team to reach their goals.

Being a successful Senior Scala Developer requires a strong technical foundation, willingness to be accessible for technical guidance, and leading by example. Your strong understanding of the product and product vision enable you to take initiatives with confidence and lead projects to actualization. 

What you'll do:

• Work with cutting-edge technology like ZIO, Cats, Kafka, Akka, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Build the backend of our newly released products which are growing in popularity as we grow our user base and continue to add new features
• Work collaboratively to design, build and maintain APIs, services and systems with our different engineering teams
• Debug production issues across different services and multiple levels of our tech stack
• Think through and help plan systems and services while writing quality code
• Thrive in a collaborative and agile environment involving different stakeholders and an evolving family of products and services
• Guide and mentor fellow Engineers
• Ensure creating value and lasting impressions for all our users
• Thrive in a collaborative and agile environment involving different stakeholders and an evolving family of products and services

What you’ll need:

• Professional experience working with Scala
• Our tech stack includes Kafka, Akka, Kubernetes and Docker, so an understanding of how those work will be beneficial
• If you have code you can share in Bitbucket or on GitHub, we would love to see what you have been working on
• An entrepreneurial sprit including strong work ethic and interest in learning
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (English required)