Scala Engineer

Company Description

Evolution is a leading provider of premium gaming solutions to the world´s most successful online casino operators.

Our innovative and high-quality offer includes brands like Red Tiger, Evolution Live, NetEnt, and Ezugi.

The Red Tiger division in Sofia is structured around tightly knitted, close-to-family, self-sufficient teams. This creates efficient work cycles, an unmatched work environment, and well-defined dependencies that ultimately give us award-winning products such as Crazy Time, Lightning Roulette, and Gonzo’s Quest.

We have an extensive track record of number 1s, and we are always looking for great people to help us create the next big product hit. That is why Evolution Bulgaria thrives on pushing limits and being at the forefront of game design to deliver on our Engineering mission.

“A flawless player experience”.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are searching for passionate Scala Engineers. 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 designers;
• 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;

To succeed in this role you should have:

• Passion for our profession, in particular Scala and Functional Programming, and improving yourself technically
• Proven experience in delivering production software using Scala or comparable experience, such as extensive JVM or Haskell experience
• Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent.

We will appreciate:

• Experience building high performance clustered systems, modular FP-based architecture, as well as actor systems, where they are necessary;
• Experience in Cats / Scalaz, Cats Effect, ZIO, Monix, Akka Actors, Persistence, Cluster & HTTP, http4s, Tagless Final and/or Scala.js.
• Experience with Event Sourcing & CQRS;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra.

We offer:

• Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time;
• Recognition from the business which translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude;
• Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world;
• A healthy mix of startup-like culture of the company, which enables us to try new approaches and technologies and remain on the edge of technological development and enterprise, with stability and supporting functions to help you focus on your job;
• Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum / Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice);
• Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly traded company;
• Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, hackathons, and other benefits and perks.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

About Us

Evolution is a market-leading developer and provider of products and services for online casino entertainment. Our excellence is driven by over 16,000 EVOlutioneers across 30 markets worldwide, working in product innovation, software development, IT solutions, game hosting and business support. Evolution’s dynamic and creative environment creates a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Our integrated business-to-business solutions guarantee that our clients can always provide an unrivalled online entertainment experience to their players globally. We thrive on remaining an award-winning digital powerhouse of entertainment products and services with an ever-expanding line-up of product brands: Evolution Live, NetEnt, Red Tiger, Ezugi, Big Time Gaming, Nolimit City and DigiWheel.

Evolution is a Swedish company founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq Nordic (EVO).