Medior/Senior Java Developer interested in Scala

Levi9 is a Dutch IT Services company with currently over 850 highly educated and skilled IT professionals in Eastern and Central Europe. Our teams work remotely on software products for Dutch and International clients. We call this cooperation model 'nearshoring'​.

Skills and Qualifications
•University degree in Computer Science/Engineering
•5+ years of software development experience in Java; experience in Spring, JSP, JSF, Hibernate
•Excellent understanding of relational database concept and working experience with SQL
•Excellent knowledge and proven experience in OOA/OOD/OOP
•Interest in learning Scala and use this language in new projects
•Fluent English, with good written and verbal communication skills
•Leader by example, passionate about software development
•Team player, facilitates the sharing of knowledge
•Personality compatible with ours: proactive, result driven, creative and open person with strong client orientation

Willing to
•Learn Scala
•Work with NoSQL databases (Cassandra)
•Work with Spray, Akka
•Work with Microservices, Event Sourcing
•Interact with AWS, Mesos, Marathon, Prometheus, Kibana
•Interact with Spark and Big Data Streaming

General Skills (non-technical)
•Good communication Skills in English
•Proactive position in solving both technical issues
•Transparent (speak out if there are issues, or the task is not clear enough, or assistance is needed)
•Willingness to learn (towards a full stack developer?)
•Team player
•Open minded

Working Relationships
•Product owner – remote, at the customer side
•Developers – combined: local (Levi9 based) & remote (at the customer side)
•Scrum Master – remote scrum master at the customer side

The Team
•The team is one of the teams involved in development process based on the Microservices approach
•Each team is responsible of a complete lifecycle (from designing till deploying) of one or several Microservices
•Each team consist of a Product Owner, Scrum Master, and around 6 developers (including BE-devs, FE-devs, full-stack devs and QA-engineers)

Types of tasks the candidate will work on
•Supporting the full life cycle of a microservice or a set of microservices
•Designing and implementing new features
•Fixing bugs
•Ops-of-the-day activities: monitoring components in production, and reacting on possible production issues
•Participating in Scrum activities

The way the team works
•Distributed Scrum team
•After on-boarding team-member works remotely
•Scrum events stands remote participation
•Business trips to Holland
•Work is planned and implemented by sprints
•Team is capable to produce and deliver complete featuresfixes
•Dynamic and flexible environment with the team able to support

•Permanent employment
•A competitive salary
•An excellent and highly stimulating working environment
•A dynamic international working environment and great career opportunities
•Personal Development through Personal Development Plans, training, education and certifications
•Great colleagues and an open and inspiring place to work