Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer to join our team.

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Developing scalable backend services


• Designing complex database solutions


• Designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs


• Day-to-day work with AWS


• Working in cross-functional teams


• Ready to take ownership and independently drive topics 

Requirements:

• At least 6+ years of hands-on coding experience


• Java Spring Boot or Scala knowledge 


• Experience with Object-Oriented/Functional Programming


• Experience in designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs


• Experience developing cloud-native apps - AWS is preferable


• Experience with SQL and NoSQL (DDB) databases


• Experience with Kafka


• Good communication skills (fluent English, at least Upper-Intermediate)

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Search databases - ElasticSearch (using it as a search engine);


• Frontend experience - JavaScript or Typescript 


• DevOps Experience - DataDog, Opsgenie, etc.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible


• A competitive salary and good compensation package


• Personalized career growth


• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)


• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing


• Education reimbursement


• Memorable anniversary presents


• Corporate events and team buildings


• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers