Senior Scala Engineer in VeliTech

VeliTech is a product company, where everyone is passionate about technology and strives to stay ahead of the curve. Our team is fueled by a deep understanding of cutting-edge frameworks, technologies, and continuous learning.

This combo brought us success, 35+ million users served with our iGaming products, breakthrough Tech Radar, and a team of 200+ bright minds who made this happen.
And this team is ready to welcome you in a world of opportunities to grow and expand your expertise.

If this piques your interest, then look no further — this is the perfect opportunity for you!

We invite Senior Scala Engineer to join VeliHorizon product team.

Horizon is the API-driven, microservices-based platform that takes online casinos, sports betting, and beyond to the next level.

Our cutting-edge technology integrates with leading gaming providers for a highly-secured, compliant gaming environment that’s designed to meet all clients’ needs.

Tech stack:
Scala 2/3, Typed Akka, ZIO, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, K8s, Kafka, gRPC, AWS

In this role you will:

• Technical improvements, research and development in mission-critical services related to authentication/authorization and money transaction processing
• Participation in core subsystem architecture design and platform R&D activities;
• Code, application, and architecture design review;
• Participate in SRE activities, monitoring, investigation and resolution, housekeeping and on-call
• Maintenance and effective legacy replacement of Spring-Boot / Java + Akka 2.5 / Scala 2.12 based service to modern Scala 2.13, Akka 2.6 / Scala 2 and 3 + ZIO 2 stacks

Skills and experience you will need:

• Solid experience with Scala/Akka(Stream, Cluster, Persistence, gRPC, Kafka) stack to develop online transaction processing services 3+ years
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL
• Deep understanding of functional and object-oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Understanding of microservices-based and event-driven architecture
• Ability to write clean, concise and maintainable code

Will be a big plus:

• Experience with JDK upgrade and GC tuning (shenandoah, g1, zero gc, cms, parallel)
• Experience with Java
• Experience with K8s application troubleshooting and resource tuning
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis, DynamoDB
• Experience with Slick, Tapir, gRPC, Scala 3, cats, ZIO
• Experience of work in a product company with real production application
• Experience of work with DevOps/SRE/XP software development practise

We offer:
Health care

• Medical insurance — full coverage
• Paid sick days — 10 days
• Well-being program

Well-deserved rest

• Paid vacation — 20 days

Work-from-anywhere opportunities

• Home
• Office
• Mix both options the way you want

Learning and Development

• Budget for self-education (hard and soft skills)
• Possibility to visit conferences and professional events
• English language courses + speaking club
• Internal educational programs
• Certification opportunities

Lifestyle

• Product mindset
• Engineering culture in our DNA
• T-shaped skill set model