Scala Engineer - Promotions

⬆️ This remote role is open to Latin America and Canada based candidates located within the countries provided here. All candidates must be available during key global collaboration hours, which are generally 8 am -12 pm EST. 

commercetools - we are:

• The competitive sort: We didn’t become the fastest growing, highest ever valued SaaS software company in digital commerce with nearly 100% year-over-year growth by sitting on the sidelines.
• Inspired: Continually exploring what’s possible — the innovators of headless commerce, the visionaries behind MACH — our patented tech has radically disrupted the world of enterprise ecommerce software - and we are just getting started. 
• Valued: Smart, strong, passionate individuals hailing from over 50 countries across the globe, speaking over 43 languages, and collectively embracing diversity, encouraging inclusion, and fostering a culture of caring.
• Driven: We push the limits, technology, and ourselves to retain the trust of some of the world’s leading and fastest growing brands every single day.

The Opportunity:

You would like to work with enthusiastic and experienced Software Engineers in an agile, international environment with a modern tech-stack  (#Functionalprogramming, #GraphQL, #Scala)? Are you thrilled by getting your hands on one of the most innovative, modern eCommerce platforms the world has seen? Your heart beats Scala, you breath functional programming, you dream about addressing intricate problems? On top you work with passion, love clean code and like to grasp the big picture? Sounds like commercetools is the perfect match! Modern E-Commerce solutions, built for high availability!

Your Mission:

• Design and implement our PaaS eCommerce backend in Scala as well as our core infrastructure components like database mappings and web service APIs for high availability e-commerce

• Assess product requirements and discuss technical approaches

• Test software components regarding usability, functionality and performance and work closely with Product Management and DevOps

• Taking part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems

What you need to succeed:

• Around five years of experience as a Software Engineer with applied work experience in Scala

• Strong communication for work in international teams

• Deep insights in functional programming and practical work experience with Scala and in developing server-side systems using the JVM

• Solid knowledge of parallel and asynchronous programming as well as non-blocking I/O

• Experience in developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures (incl. sharding, replication, load balancing and fail over)

• Aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn new technologies, concepts, etc.

• Great team player & nice colleague who enjoys our working & company culture

Team Values:

• Positivity. Negativity is the enemy of progress.

• Trust & Transparency. Promote direct and continuous feedback.

• Learning. Be proud if you’ve failed at something. Think big, start small, learn fast!

Tech at commercetools:

We Are Open Source And Innovative By Design

🚀 We make rapid progress by being early adopters of React, Scala, and GraphQL

📋 We share & contribute to the open source community: https://github.com/sangria-graphql

⚙️ We <3 Automation and Machine Learning

We care about your Growth and Well-being

☀️ Remote Work: Up to 60 days/year from a country different from your base country  

💻 Open Learning & Development Budget

📚 ct Academy: Regular internal training sessions

🙌 Our Benefits: Check them out here

⌚️ Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated staff

🚀 Mindset & Growth: A diverse, creative workspace with an international culture & learning environment

💪 Our differences make us stronger 

We believe that our diversity makes us a stronger team. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds - not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us better.

At commercetools, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are focused on fair hiring practices regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Are you ready? Come grow with us!

🔍 Are you looking for something else? Check out our Career Page and our Website for more information.