About the client:
Our customer is the European online car market with over 30 million monthly users, with a market presence in 18 countries. As a Senior Scala + Java Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable backend services in Scala and Java
- Model complex business domains using strong type systems
- Build and maintain event-driven and distributed systems
- Contribute to architectural decisions around concurrency, streaming, and data consistency
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and system reliability
- Collaborate closely with product and platform teams
Required Experience
- 4+ years of backend development experience in Scala and Java (main focus on Scala)
- Java Spring Boot experience
- Experience with Clouds, AWS preferably
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka)
- Hands-on experience with the Typelevel ecosystem
- Deep understanding of: Effect systems (Cats Effect); Functional programming principles; Type classes, higher-kinded types; Pure vs impure boundaries
- Experience building distributed systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous programming
- At least upper-intermediate English level
Nice to Have
- Experience with Scala 3
- Experience with PHP
- Knowledge of tagless-final patterns
- Experience in fintech or high-integrity domains
- Experience contributing to open source
We offer*:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers