Senior Scala Engineer

About Roqad
Roqad is a SaaS technology company based in Berlin, Poznan, Miami, London and San Francisco, that provides cross-device technology to improve digital advertising and user analytics. Our cross-device technology is built in-house and complies with EU, US and German privacy regulations. The core of our technology is our Roqad Cross-Device Identity Graph, which predicts device connections belonging to the same user based on a probabilistic approach. Many international brands such as Microsoft, Samsung, Verve and Nielsen are already satisfied customers and many market leading adtech companies are our partners.

Your responsibilities:

• Help design and implement highly scalable systems for low latency, high throughput request processing.

• Write good quality and high performant code, unit tested code.

• Continuously improve yours and your colleagues' code.

• Signing off on code reviews.

• Automate boring parts of software development.

• Document and collaborate in WIKI, JIRA, and Bitbucket.

What we expect from you:

Must have:

• Problem solving attitude and love for writing good software.

• Ability to code in Java or Scala.

• Good understanding of computer architecture, algorithms complexity, data structures and their properties.

• Understanding of Linux operating systems on a user level.

• Knowledge of REST architectural style and HTTP protocol.

• Knowledge of the MarTech ecosystem.

• Good command of English (both written and spoken).

Optional, but works in your favour:

• Open source projects or open source projects’ contributions.

• Knowledge of any of the following technologies: Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Redis, Avro, Apache Parquet, Hadoop, Akka, Spray, JavaScript, Aerospike, React.

• Experience in non-blocking asynchronous architectures.

• Understanding of Linux operating systems on an advanced level.

• Understanding of JVM (memory management and garbage collection, Java memory model, concurrency, etc.).

• Understanding of no-sql approaches to data modelling.

What we offer:

You will work in an exciting and challenging environment with strong company culture based on fast growth and transparency. You will be solving problems that affect millions of our users using the best tools and technologies. You will learn a lot along the way while working with an extremely motivated and skilled team of our engineers. On top of that - we will pay you a competitive salary :)