TECH LEAD (SCALA)
COUNTRY
Europe
FORMAT
Remote

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Back End Scala Engineerfor a full time in office 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 (India)
🏢 Svitla Systems
📍 India