TECH LEAD (SCALA)
- COUNTRY
- Europe
- FORMAT
- Remote

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Back End Scala Engineerfor a full-time on-site position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a finance company and an alternative lending platform focused on providing capital access to small and medium-sized businesses.

You'll contribute to a microservices-based fintech origination platform. The role involves building and extending backend services across a multi-step deal ingestion pipeline, with integrations into third-party data providers and a financial management system.

REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of commercial experience in backend development with Scala and/or Java.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms, including parallelization and performance optimization.
- Experience with RabbitMQ; familiarity with other message brokers, such as Kafka, is also valued.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or comparable relational databases.




- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
- Strong commercial experience with AWS.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.

NICE TO HAVE
- Knowledge of Heroku.
- Experience with Python.
- Background in fintech or financial services is a robust plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement scalable, reliable backend services in Scala, aligned with existing architecture and coding standards.
- Build and maintain RabbitMQ-based messaging integrations between microservices, as well as third-party API integrations (data verification providers, OCR services, and NetSuite).
- Design and implement RESTful APIs to serve internal platform needs and support external partner integrations.
- Maintain high code quality through unit and integration testing, peer code reviews, and performance profiling.
- Participate in deployment pipelines and manage workloads on Heroku and AWS environments.
- Follow client security and data-handling

📌 Tech Lead (Naushera)
🏢 Svitla Systems
📍 Naushera