Media Sourcery is a software company that licenses its software to enterprise clients. Products range from cold chain + blockchain applications to rules engines + workflow software. While our main customers are healthcare focused, our products and solutions apply to any industry.

We’re in search of a Scala Engineer that specializes in API development to work with our customization team. In this role, you’ll code in Scala/Scalatra and will bring a depth of knowledge on basic algorithms, data structures and micro services. As a Back-End Software Engineer, on any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code to be more scalable, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build robust and scalable software in Scala/Scalatra.
• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members.
• Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of Back-End Software Engineers, Project Managers and System Administrators.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
• Work with the product manager and front end developers to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.

Skills/Requirements

• 2+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
• A track record of projects completed on time – you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator.
• You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges.
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development.
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
• Experience with Scala/Scalatra and the willingness to learn new technologies (experience with other object-oriented languages is okay too, but our code is Scala, so you should be able to get up-to-speed quickly).
• Establish Back-End Software Engineer best practices.
• Work autonomously, are excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale.
• Knowledge in database systems and SQL databases such as Oracle.
• Experience deploying machine learning models is a plus.

In this role you will:

• Create APIs that support the automation of workflows for a medical supply company.
• Automate data collection, pre-processing, governance, and analysis.
• Work closely with program managers and UI teams to implement the data processing logic using Scala/Scalatra
• Communicate findings clearly and succinctly to technical and non-technical audience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong programming skills in Scala.
• Demonstrates strong attention to detail.
• Experience with database architecture and design including scalability, performance and high availability.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

Salary and compensation

$80,000 — $170,000/year