HQ BARCELONA - Senior Scala Engineer

Jobandtalent
Who we are: We are a workforce on-demand company that heavily relies on tech. We integrate the complete process of selecting, hiring, and managing employees, being the first in digitizing all the steps, introducing Artificial Intelligence solutions in multiple phases, obtaining faster and higher-quality service for our clients, and great satisfaction and loyalty for our workers.
Our Impact on Society: Our vision is to create a long-term job security condition for our workers while providing flexible solutions to our clients. We can do this by concatenating different short-term contracts and minimizing–or completely removing–their unemployed time. We want to remove the need for finding a job ever again.
Data-Driven: Being the owner of the entire hiring funnel, workforce management, and working experience, give us very unique data that we transform into powerful knowledge to make better decisions, improve job-candidate matches, estimate quality and affinity, and share performance feedback with our workers and clients. We are the most advanced workforce on-demand company thanks to our data and the way we use it.
Great Challenges for the Data Team: Integrating very different AI solutions to improve the experience for both our workers and employers (Shift Optimization, Machine Learning algorithms, Quality Score Estimations, Document recognition, etc.), relying on a very powerful ETL that permits endless automatizations while keeping the focus on data quality.
Growth Overview: An annual growth of 170%, available in multiple countries: the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Colombia, France, and more are coming. HQ in Madrid with a second big presence in Barcelona and some remote workers in the UK, The Netherlands, and the USA. And finally, some of our great clients are Amazon, XPOLogistics, Cabify, Santander, Just Eat, etc.
Senior Scala Polyglot
A Senior Engineer for the CORE Data Science team works across different projects together with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts.
What do we expect from you
Raise the quality bar: build high-quality and sustainable code, and being able to propose better protocols, formats, and approaches when you see the need.
Direct impact and ownership: from brainstorming around the initial concepts and problems, to design and implement the solutions in production. You should be able to cover the entire full-cycle and being aware of how these solutions are used and how they perform over time.
Polyglot: you should be comfortable switching between different programming languages and/or frameworks, even though experience with Scala is extremely important.
Mentoring and leadership: as a Senior Engineer we need you to help to define protocols and procedures, guide other team members to improve their level and expertise as individuals and as a team.
Play outside your comfort zone: working on different Data Science related projects means working on areas in which you might not be the final expert. This means that you always have to be willing to grow and learn.
Requirements and Skills
6+ Year experience as Backend Developer mainly building Scala and/or Java services and APIs, with staging and production environments.
Experience in writing production-quality code in a container-based fashion, and working with Amazon Web Services.
Experience with different kinds of databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, document-ba

Skills
Java, AWS, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, ETL

Experience
6+ yrs

Employment type
Full-Time (40h)

Work arrangement
No