Senior Scala Developer

As part of the Building Blocks tribe, the purpose of your team is to accelerate teams as they build APIs.

For an efficient IT organisation, we aim to reduce double work as much as possible and therefore we build generic solutions for generic challenges that software engineers encounter when building (JVM-based) APIs. Users and stakeholders are for a large part located in The Netherlands, but as our organisation is merging with Belgium, teams from there are also prominent users and stakeholders. Beyond that, as we are transforming our international systems towards one global platform, users and stakeholders from all other countries are gradually becoming more important roles to us as well.

Role

As engineer you will work in a squad with 5-7 other engineers that have similar skills as you. It is up to the squad to manage who takes part in discussions with users and stakeholders to come to concrete new features of your product.

Sometimes users experience difficulties while integrating your product with their own solution. In such situations, your squad helps the user to tackle these issues. All squad members take part in this technical support towards users.

The team is responsible for all activities of the software delivery life cycle. Because the systems delivered by these teams are critical components of our strategic architecture, reliability of our systems is extremely important. Therefore, we expect you to take responsibility within the team on ensuring very high availability ratings.

Responsibilities

We expect every engineers to be fully capable and motivated to take responsibility for the delivery of features, from forming the requirements together with stakeholders, through testing and development (in Scala), until it is running in production. In addition, you're able to get less experienced engineers to a higher level.

At all moments we have to know whether the system is running as we expect it to and we have to be able to deal with any issue that can arise, whether it's a bug in the application, networking problems, or an issue with something much deeper in the stack. For this last part, it's important that you have affinity with operating Linux based systems.

Futhermore you develop the Middleware (through which different systems connect to each other) for example by adding a feature that facilitates canary releases and other routing mechanisms

Qualifications

* Multiple years' experience with Scala

* Understanding of functional programming principles and distributed systems

* Basic understanding of software security issues, like the OWASP top 10

* Capable of delivering both working code and a suitable set of automated tests

* Experience with code reviews

* Good understanding of and affinity with Linux based systems

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.