Senior Software Engineer (Scala)

About First Engineers

We are a Norwegian recruitment and consultancy company, innovative and with global ambitions. We are recruitment engineers specialized within our core markets. We welcome you to take part in our journey.

Since our establishment we have set a clear focus on delivering recruitment and contract services within a selection of industries. Working consistently within the tech-environment has enabled us to become a specialist recruitment and consultancy company. First Engineers deliver multidisciplinary personnel; engineers, specialists, management and administrative personnel, in our core markets. Our markets are global and we offer our services both domestically and internationally. Our clients range from start-ups to global powerhouses in our industries.

Position

We are looking for experienced engineers who want to work on challenging problems processing petabytes of data where every millisecond counts!

Our ideal candidates have a passion for open source technologies and strong programming skills. We’re a tight-knit, talented team of pragmatic, productive engineers who have created a culture of transparency and accountability, which minimizes bureaucracy and maximizes developer freedom, autonomy and creative development time.

The role is based in Oslo - we offer relocation package.

Responsibilities:

• Work hands-on as a programmer to solve complex problems building advanced software systems processing over 1M QPS and several petabytes of data
• Lead by example utilizing software engineering best practices
• Work cross-functionally with the Business and Engineering teams to ensure collaboration on delivering the best products

Your qualification

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or other relevant degrees
• Strong understanding of concurrent and parallel programming
• Vast knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Strong understanding of one or more programming languages (Ex: Java, Scala, C++, Python, etc)
• Experience working with high scale systems
• Knowledge of RESTful Web services
• Highly productive with familiarity of *nix scripting and tools
• Passionate about agile/lean/simple

Will be a plus

Experience programming for JVM

Tools We Use:

• Typesafe Stack (Scala, SBT, Play!, Akka)
• Finagle, Unfiltered
• Kafka, MySql, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis, Cassandra, Zookeeper
• Hadoop, Scalding, Spark
• Mesos, Marathon, Docker
• Additional state-of-the-art technologies that enable us to be the best

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of First Engineers.