Backend Software Engineer - Scala (m/f) - Berlin

Job Description

Our engineering team operates a lean development process to deliver our world-class products and services. Modern languages and tools paired with continuous deployment and cloud-based infrastructure helps us master the global-technology platform challenges. 

In this role you will be:

• Responsible for designing and implementing modern backend and middleware solutions to help support Spotcap's global portfolio of products and services.
• Using your knowledge of the benefits of functional programming, encapsulation, choosing the right data-structures, immutability, asynchronous structures, and code organization to deliver high quality, robust, and maintainable code.
• Actively participating in planning, creating, and running the products and services.
• Doing code-reviews, automated testing and taking features to production.
• Integrate with third party APIs and write specifications for APIs consumed by our partners.

Working at Spotcap means you will benefit from the following:

• Be part of a dynamic, driven and international team of more than 120 employees from 25 countries, with diverse backgrounds, based in our offices in the heart of Berlin. 
• Strong career progression and the opportunity to grow with the business. 
• A startup atmosphere in an established company environment with flat hierarchies - meaning you’ll be expected, and encouraged, to contribute your ideas.
• Training and development budgets which can be used for conferences, attending personal training and development courses to ensure continuous growth and development. 
• An engineering environment where learning and applying new methods and technologies is encouraged.
• A great company culture with regular social activities, tech talks and health and fitness initiatives. 
• A collaborative working culture with regular brainstorms, stand-ups and inter-departmental gatherings across two continents. 
• Choose your own device: the option to choose between a high-end Dell or Mac Notebook. 
• Fresh fruit, drinks, cereals, and regular team breakfasts. 
• Relocation support services

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate has:

• Two plus years of experience in developing and running HTTP API based backends.
• Proficiency in Scala, knows its ecosystem and has experience running products/services on the JVM.
• Worked in feature teams that worked on all aspects of a software product.
• Experience writing concurrent, parallel and scalable products.
• Experience working with Amazon Web Services products.
• An understanding of the benefits of purely functional code, immutability, encapsulation, choosing the right data-structures, asynchronous structures, code organisation and testability.
• Followed new developments in the ever changing landscape of backend technologies.
• A sense of purpose and clarity for the entire software development and deployment process.
• An innate curiosity and drive to get things done.
• Average knowledge of English.
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