The successful candidate for the “Senior Scala Engineer” role, will be reporting to the Head of Client Digital Technology, Post Trade. They will be responsible for the of developing an AWS cloud-based critical market infrastructure service using predominately scala.

This great opportunity requires a candidate to take Pride in their work and Ownership of their work. Have excellent engineering skills, communication skills, can-do behaviour and highly collaborative. Always positively encouraging the team.

They will be playing a meaningful role in growing the business.

Key Responsibilities

Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Equities platform ensuring timely delivery of work items.

Resolve a high impact problem through in-depth evaluation of sophisticated architectures, business processes and industry standards.

Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions. Contribute to research and suggest for new projects for the Equities platform. Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances. Contribute and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development.

Ensure work is well documented and communicated with customer expectations managed.

Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Key Skills and Experience

Microservices architecture

Excellent understanding of microservices designs, its pitfalls, and standard processes.

Knowledge of Domain Driven Design and event driven architecture.

Experience working with containerised and orchestrated services using Docker and Kubernetes.

Familiar with the concept of service mesh such as Istio.

Experience building and maintain dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab.

Experience using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology.

Knowledge of using eventing and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka and MQ

Strong experience in functional programming and object-oriented programming.

Deep understanding of Scala including Akka (for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications), Play Framework (for web applications), Cats/Scalaz (for functional programming abstractions)

Proficiency in developing and delivering enterprise grade Scala applications.

Experience with data structures, algorithms, concurrency & multi-threading.

Database Management

Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with relational DBs, such as Postgres.

Solid understanding of object storages such as AWS S3

Knowledge of Database version control tools such as Flyway and Liquibase

Cloud Architecture

Public cloud preferably AWS.

Cloud-based technology like AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM

Understanding of cloud networking.

You understand and believe in the ethos of agile working.

You have experience of working in Scrum/Kanban model.

You can participate and actively collaborate and contribute to sprint ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinement

You have the experience of collaborating with multi-functional teams in scaled agile setups.

You have some experience of writing applications using Java.

You have developed Web applications using ReactJS.

8+yrs of relevant experience, defining level of seniority.

Key Behaviours

• You have proven a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing your customers’ expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to tackle responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with your team members
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintain respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and improving new technologies while minimizing complexity.

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