Backend Developer - Core Platform

We are strengthening our Core Platform team in Stockholm whom are responsible for backend applications that handles game transactions for 300+ first person casino games developed and operated by Evolution Group. The team is developing, maintaining and improving several backend applications which together delivers a high performance system with low latency for our players.

We are searching for passionate Software Engineers. You are either already proficient in Scala and functional programming or enthusiastic about learning. We thrive in well-designed, scalable, systems which use modern functional programming based design approaches. We believe that the functional programming approach in Scala results in systems which are easier to build and maintain. We use modern, pragmatic approaches such as Tagless Final and libraries such as Cats and Cats Effect to achieve this.

You will need to:

• Be proactive, pragmatic and professional, deliver results
• Write code that make our games and related functionality run
• Write unit and other automated tests
• Work and communicate efficiently with the rest of the development team, including PO, front-end developers and design
• Actively participate in code reviews so that code delivered by you and your team is of great quality
• Own your applications, ensure they deploy and run 24/7 on our Kubernetes platform with great performance
• Be ready to invest the effort to become an even better developer

Requirements

• Have proven experience in delivering production software using Scala, Java or comparable language
• Be familiar with functional/reactive, asynchronous, non-blocking styles of programming
• Passion for our profession and improving yourself technically
• Have a problem solving mindset, including that you are willing to move outside your comfort zone and learn and work with new technologies.
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

We will appreciate experience with or wiliness to learn about:

• Building high performance clustered systems, modular FP-based architecture, as well as actor systems, where they are necessary
• Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO, Monix, Akka Actors, Akka Persistence, Akka Cluster, http4s, Tagless Final
• Event Sourcing & CQRS
• Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra