Senior Backend Developer

Digital Magic Ltd is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join their team. The role involves designing and developing backend services while ensuring performance and robustness under high load conditions.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a small, flexible team to design and develop correct, performant and elegant (in that order) backend services
• Handle thousands to millions of concurrent users while remaining robust in the face of unexpected failures and load spikes
• Each new project is unlike the others and carries new challenges that are waiting to be solved

Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience developing production-grade server software in Scala and/or Java
• Understanding of concurrent and parallel programming
• Familiarity with cluster computing, network programming, and cloud technologies
• Ability to work both as part of a team, and independently without supervision
• Understanding the value of balance between writing perfect code and satisfying business requirements
• Eagerness to learn
• Good spoken and written English skills
• Familiarity with Event Sourcing and/or CQRS paradigms
• Experience with Akka
• Experience with NoSQL data stores. Ability to reason about correctness and performance implications of different storage engines and their configurations, particularly in a distributed setting
• Excellent knowledge of UNIX-based systems
• Knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Full stack development experience, knowledge of modern frontend (web or mobile) technologies and ecosystems
• Examples of technical experience, such as: Open source GitHub/Bitbucket/etc repositories, Links to technical talks, Active StackOverflow account, Technical blog, Coursera/Udacity/edX certificates, Links to prior successful commercial projects. A short description of the major challenges solved is a plus

Benefits

• Engaging and challenging projects.
• Flexible working hours.
• A tight-knit, experienced team that is willing to teach and is ready to learn.

Company Overview

• An experienced team of software engineers capable of delivering even most challenging products. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Tallinn, Harjumaa, EST, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is http://www.digital-magic.io.