Mid or Senior Scala Engineer

Our Guiding Stars are the values at the heart of our organization that drive everything we do. We are committed to creating meaningful change not only in our industry but also in the communities we engage with. If our Guiding Stars resonate with you, we encourage you to consider joining our team.

• Drive Results: We think big, work smart, and execute fast to transform the future of commerce
• Cultivate Belonging: We welcome diverse backgrounds and experiences, driving positive change through inclusion and teamwork
• Champion Customers: We go the extra mile for our customers to help them unlock their full potential
• Adapt Boldly: We're curious and innovative, we take risks and grow from our failures, As a Scala Engineer at commercetools, you will work with enthusiastic, experienced Software Engineers in an agile, international environment with a modern tech stack (functional programming, GraphQL, Scala, and more). Our Search team's mission is to build customer-facing search APIs for the purpose of product discovery. Our Scala Engineers solve complex problems, work with passion, and are constantly seeking the big picture, all while working on one of the world's most modern e-commerce platforms., * Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS eCommerce Scala backend
• Develop a scalable and multi-tenant architecture
• Analyze user needs and discuss technical approaches
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance and work closely with Product, Management and DevOps
• Take part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems

• Experience as Software Engineer working with Scala
• Deep insights in functional programming and practical work experience with Scala and in developing server-side systems using the JVM
• Exposure to Elasticsearch (preferred), Solr, OpenSearch, or Lucence
• Experience with parallel and asynchronous programming as well as non-blocking I/O
• Background developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures (incl. sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover)
• Aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn new technologies, concepts, etc.
• Openness to infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes and Rust
• Fluent English communication skills to work in international teams

Competitive Compensation Package: Generous compensation structure consisting of salary, a competitive stock option package, and various benefits and perks

By giving our customers and partners the most flexible commerce platform, which is based on a Microservices, API-first, true Cloud and Headless architecture (we call it the MACH architecture*), we are not only helping them maintain their competitive advantage but we are also changing the e-commerce platform market. Today, Fortune Global 500 companies across industries rely on commercetools and the commercetools platform. Founded in Germany in 2006, our international expansion has reached Europe (Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, and Switzerland), the US (Durham, NC), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Australia). In October 2019, with a $145M investment from global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partner, commercetools is in full gear going forward. We are firm believers in our core values: Purpose, Trust, and Lifelong Learning. More than ever we need passionate talents who believe in these values and in a better future of e-commerce. Awaiting you is an employer that cares and an accomplished international team full of like-minded and friendly individuals operating from across the globe., BerlinStartupJobs is the leading platform for inspiring jobs in Europe's new startup capital. Founded in 2011, our aim is to connect startups and established tech companies in Berlin with the best talents. Read more >>