Scala Developer (Food Delivery sphere)

Our client is the nation’s leading online and mobile food ordering company, dedicated to connecting hungry diners with their favorite local restaurants. The people who work there are the company’s greatest asset; each person plays an integral part in building tools and technology that help restaurants succeed, and in cooking up fresh new ways to delight diners.

The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow diners to order directly from more than 55,000 takeout restaurants in over 1,100 U.S. cities and London.

An engineer in the cloud infrastructure team is responsible for building the frameworks and platform on which all of the client’s services are built and operate along with a number of key services.  This team is at the core of implementing distributed, scalable system foundations and designing for 5 9’s uptime and horizontal scalability. Candidates in this space should have a strong desire to drive innovation by building feature rich, scalable systems that are conducive to evolution.

Work on the Java and Scala frameworks all our services and their testing are built on as well as the services that comprise our platform on which services operate. This in includes our netty based traffic router and load balancer that sits between clients and all services handling millions of requests every day.

• Help build multi datacenter, performant and highly available services, and the frameworks to support them;
• Use and help drive the building, requirements, and usage of a continuous delivery environment;
• Help build and support frameworks to interact with various cloud technologies
• Communicate with leadership, product owners, other technologists, and users to create working software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities;
• Actively contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies. We are always improving the process of building software; we need you to help contribute;

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field;
• 2+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications  (e-commerce preferred);
• Java, Scala, C#, or a similar modern object-oriented language;
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software;
• AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings;
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/gatling.io);
• Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms);
• Familiarity or experience developing highly-available distributed systems (5×9’s uptime etc.);
• Interested in working for a fast paced tech and product oriented company;
• Professional Cassandra experience;
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions;
• Mesos or Kubernetes;
• Hot-hot multi data center distributed services;