Backend Developer

We're expanding our Core Platform team in Stockholm and are on the hunt for passionate Software Engineers. You are either already proficient in Scala and functional programming or enthusiastic about learning. In this role, you'll be responsible for backend applications that manage the logic of our 300+ first person casino games, all developed and operated by us at Evolution Group.

Our team is committed to developing, maintaining, and enhancing multiple backend applications and libraries that together deliver a high-performance, low-latency gaming experience for our players. We take pride in our well-designed, scalable systems that utilize modern functional programming-based design approaches. We firmly believe that Scala's functional programming approach results in high-performing systems that are simpler to construct and maintain. To achieve this, we employ a mature, battle-tested tech stack based on Cats Effect and other Typelevel projects. If you're a passionate Software Engineer looking to make a significant impact in the gaming industry, we'd love to hear from you.

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