Scala Team Lead

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 Scala Team Lead 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:
-hands-on contribution and leadership of team feature development, delivery and supervising in quality assurance;
-lead code, application and architecture design review, improvements and R&D activities;
-lead and participate in SRE practice, housekeeping, on-call, correction-of-errors, continuous improvement process and practice in a team;
-participate in cross-functional activities and collective leadership processes Team Lead Catch Up, Scala Community and Technical Board;
-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;
-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 K8s application troubleshooting and resource tuning;
-Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis, DynamoDB;
-Experience with Tapir, gRPC, Scala 3, ZIO, cats;
-Experience with Java;
-Experience of work in a product company with real production application;
-Experience of work with DevOps/SRE/XP software development practise;
-Experience of PostgreSQL Database query optimization.

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.

About Velitech

VeliTech is a product company, where everyone is passionate about technology and strives to stay ahead of the curve. Our team is fuelled 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, 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.

Company website:
velitech.com

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/velitech/