Expertise in Scala and functional programming paradigms.

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.

• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/CD and various testing approaches.

• Deep distributed systems knowledge, having supported multiple high-throughput systems in a production setting.

• Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless technologies.

• Experience with asynchronous programming models, ideally those that support high-throughput systems running on the JVM in a production setting.

• Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering trade-offs versus business needs.

• Persistent sense of curiosity to understand why something is and needs to be.

• Accountability and a sense of extreme ownership that doesn’t end after the system is deployed to production.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills