Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer to join our team.

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Lead 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:

• Developing scalable backend services
• Designing complex database solutions
• Designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs
• Day-to-day work with AWS
• Working in cross-functional teams
• Ready to take ownership and independently drive topics 

Requirements:

• At least 6+ years of hands-on coding experience
• Java Spring Boot or Scala knowledge 
• Experience with Object-Oriented/Functional Programming
• Experience in designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs
• Experience developing cloud-native apps - AWS is preferable
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL (DDB) databases
• Experience with Kafka
• Good communication skills (fluent English, at least Upper-Intermediate)

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Search databases - ElasticSearch (using it as a search engine);
• Frontend experience - JavaScript or Typescript 
• DevOps Experience - DataDog, Opsgenie, etc.

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