Scala Developer

Your influential mission. You will...  

• Participate in software design, development, refactoring, support, and code reviews to maintain high development standards
• Collaborate with platform teams to deliver great results
• Work autonomously on your tasks with little or no supervision
• Optimize the platform to achieve maximum throughput and scalability
• Be proactive and go beyond expectations

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

• Have strong experience developing server-side in Scala for at least 2 years
• Understand JVM, data structures, and algorithms
• Possess excellent knowledge of parallel and concurrent programming
• Have experience with Pekko Http, Actor, Cluster, Persistence, and Streams
• Have proven experience developing high-scale distributed systems with complex interfaces and integrations
• Exhibit an engineering mindset: self-motivated, initiative, quick learner, team player, critical thinker
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving prowess
• Have a desire to document and share knowledge with colleagues
• Communicate well in English

You'll get extra points for...

• Couchbase
• AWS S3 and DynamoDB
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Linux

Thrive in a culture that values...   

• Possibility to work with a product company
• Personalised professional growth
• Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
• Educational possibilities
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical insurance
• Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station)
• Flexible work format - remote, office-based or mixed
• Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays
• Corporate events and team buildings

Additional Information

GPAS TEAM

Gaming Platform as a Service aka GPAS is Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform that currently has more than 1000 games running on it. 

GPAS is a highly accessible, multi-tenant, scalable, distributed and event-driven system written in Scala with the help of the Akka framework. 

We use Couchbase as a hot storage and AWS S3/DynamoDB as our cold storage to ensure we can handle nearly a billion transactions per day. 

We have a complex solution that provides capabilities to run a variety of different slot, and multiplayer games and our architecture supports an extension to support other types of games.

We adopt Scrum methodology to deliver new features on time. 

Tech stack:

• Sbt, Scala 3
• Pekko(http, actor, cluster, persistence, streams, connectors)
• Typesafe config
• Couchbase
• AWS S3 and DynamoDB
• Play Json
• Scalatest
• Docker + Nomad or K8s

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.