Backend (Scala/Kotlin) Engineer - Content Experiences (HYBRID)

ABOUT THEROLE AND THE TEAM:

Content Experiences is a growing multi-disciplinary group of 100+ engineers, data scientists, business developers, product designers, and product managers in Helsinki and Berlin, working to inspire each individual customer with meaningful fashion moments beyond transactions in a very personalized way. To further strengthen our efforts to improve our platform offering, we are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer striving on the ideas of finely crafted software, operational excellence and building a world class platform.

Our cross-functional team of software and data engineers is focused on optimizing value streams in the content domain by building a world class content platform as a fundamental service of our fashion platform. Our (micro) services are written in functional Scala and partially operate in a high load environment with up to 10k RPS. Our tech stack consists of Scala 3, ZIO, Caliban, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.

WHAT WE'D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING):Consistently ship working, testable, maintainable, readable code/data to production in small and safe iterations. The solutions are performant, scalable and fulfil the set SLOs of the product

Own and operate backend microservices on top of Kubernetes and AWS

Making a positive impact on our engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions within the team and beyond

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF YOU:

Have high proficiency in at least one high level JVM based programming language, preferably Scala or Kotlin

Experience or interest in Scala functional programming libraries (cats, ZIO, etc) or functional programming in general is a plus

Are passionate about your customers/users

Strive for high code quality

Have competence with distributed event-driven systems

Have experience with creating and consuming GraphQL APIs, that operate at scale, are easy to use, self-documented and have the caller's perspective always in mind

Are familiar with DevO