INSART

About the Client

Our client is transforming the world of alternative investments, making them accessible to a broader range of investors. Traditionally, private funds and other alternative assets have been available only to institutional players due to their complexity and regulatory barriers. They change that by providing a cutting-edge platform that simplifies access, management, and distribution of these investment opportunities.

About the Role

As a Senior Scala Engineer, you’ll be part of the team building the core backend systems that power the client’s investment platform. Your mission will be to design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable distributed services that enable seamless data flow and financial transactions at scale.

You’ll contribute to the architecture of microservices and real-time data pipelines, applying functional programming principles and leveraging technologies like Akka, Play Framework, and streaming frameworks such as Spark or Flink. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll help shape technical direction and ensure the platform continues to deliver secure, robust, and efficient solutions for the global investment community.

Role Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust backend systems using Scala, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Participate in designing distributed systems and microservices architectures. Contribute to decisions on frameworks, libraries, and best practices.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code. Promote functional programming principles and ensure code quality through code reviews and unit/integration tests.
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize application performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Role Requirements:

• 4+ years working with Scala
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Experience with functional programming paradigms
• Experience with Akka, Play Framework, or ZIO ecosystem
• Strong communication skills with English B2+ for direct cooperation with the client
• Project starter mindset with ability to work independently and take ownership in a changing environment.
• Strong curiosity to the fintech domain.

Nice to have:

• Experience in fintech, banking, or payment systems
• Knowledge of data streaming and real-time analytics
• Exposure to Big Data frameworks (Spark, Flink)

Interview Process

1. Intro Call with Recruiter (45 min)
2. Technical Interview (up to 60 min)
3. Client Interview (up to 60 min)

Looking forward to having a mutually interesting conversation with you!

Role Overview

We are looking for a General QA Engineer with a focus on  automation and manual testing. The role involves ensuring product quality across functional, API, automation, and performance testing, as well as maintaining and improving automated test coverage. You will also have an opportunity to leverage AI tools to support test creation and improve QA processes. The company operates in the FinTech industry and specializes in alternative investments.

Role Responsibilities

• This isn't a full-time Automation QA position. It's more a General QA role with a focus on manual testing. Automation is part of the role as well, including AI-generated tests where appropriate.
• Integration of automated test suites with the current build and deployment processes.
• Maintenance of automated tests to accommodate changes in system design and architecture.
• Integration of Automation framework with existing tools (JIRA).
• Create/Manage/Utilize Defect workflows with automated test execution.
• Design and publish meaningful metrics to support automation test creation and execution.
• Build and implementation of performance test suites.
• Perform all types of testing – Functional, API, Automation, Manual and Load, including necessary manual validation where required.

Role Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with QA engineering delivery experience
• 4+ years of delivery within Agile SDLC/teams ideally with CICD
• Programming experience in Java with focus on behavior driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) and design patterns, ideally within continuous integration (CICD), including hands-on experience for backend automation
• Experience with Java microservices and REST APIs and exposure to React front end
• Strong experience in data engineering, including data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and big data processing
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, and distributed computing environments
• Experience designing and implementing streaming data processing solutions and scalable data platforms
• Experience with Playwright and TypeScript
• Agile development approach
• CICD: Maven, Sonar, Git, Teamcity/Jenkins, Docker
• AI Integration experience preferred
• Exposure to banking and/or finance environments preferred
• Strong communication skills: English B2+

Interview Process

1. Intro Call with Recruiter (45 minutes)
2. Technical Interview (90 minutes)
3. Call with Tech Lead (30 minutes) 
4. Client’s Interview (60 mins)

Looking forward to having a mutually interesting conversation with you! 😉