Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer

the company 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

• Strong expertise with Scala is a must.

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.

• Experience with Object-Oriented/Functional Programming

• Experience in designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs

• Experience developing cloud-native apps using AWS 

• 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.