Senior Functional Scala Developer (contract)

Who we are: 

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specializing in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprises and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online, and mobile channels, and are recognized for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. We’re seeking Functional Scala developers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network in our North American Business Unit.
As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help deliver products and solutions to meet business needs and help your teams deliver better. And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects, backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, FP, pair programming, and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must, coupled with a passion for technology.

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices.
• Delivery of software using functional programming concepts (immutable data structures, pure functions/referentially transparent functions, dealing with side effects).
• Cats Effects 
• Zio Libraries 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.
•  Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).
• Advocating agile practices to the client organization.
•  Mentoring client team members.
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.

Required Skills

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining, and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• In-depth knowledge of Scala and its associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Understanding of the fundamental principles of Functional Programming and experience applying them in your day-to-day development.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realizing these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills including a desire to collaborate and knowledge share with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems, including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Experience with Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large-scale production systems, ideally in containerized/cloud environments using AWS

**Equal Experts engage on a C2C (Corp-to-Corp) basis, this requires any candidate to have their own business entity setup and an associated bank account. No benefits can be offered. Personal bank accounts cannot be used.**