Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer to join our team.

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Developing scalable backend services
• Designing complex database solutions
• Designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs
• Day-to-day work with AWS
• Working in cross-functional teams
• Ready to take ownership and independently drive topics 

Requirements:

• At least 6+ years of hands-on coding experience
• Strong expertise with Scala
• Java Spring Boot knowledge
• Experience with Object-Oriented/Functional Programming
• Experience in designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs
• Experience developing cloud-native apps — AWS is preferable
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL (DDB) databases
• Experience with Kafka
• Good communication skills (fluent English, at least Upper-Intermediate)

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Search databases — ElasticSearch (using it as a search engine);
• Frontend experience — JavaScript or Typescript 
• DevOps Experience — DataDog, Opsgenie, etc.