Backend Developer (Scala)

Job title:

Backend Developer (Scala)

Company:

Evolution Gaming

Job description

Company DescriptionEvolution is a world-leading, B2B developer and provider of games and services for the online casino industry, employing more than 20,000 people across 20+ locations. We offer a turn-key solution for operators which allows their players to move flawlessly between mobile, tablet and desktop to play slots or live casino, which feature real tables with real dealers in real time. Our innovative and high-quality product portfolio includes multiple award-winning player favourites from our brands Evolution, Red Tiger, NetEnt, Ezugi and Big Time Gaming. Evolution AB is listed on Nasdaq Nordic with market capitalisation of €25B+.We thrive on pushing limits and doing what hasn’t been done to deliver on our Engineering mission: A flawless player experience.In Evolution Engineering, we take the quality of our products and uptime of our services very seriously. We believe that building solid in-house competence with limited external dependencies is critical to our success. Our code runs 24/7/365 to serve users around the world and we use a modern software stack to support our frequent and fully automated releases, which exceeds 270 releases per month to our main live environment.Job DescriptionWe are searching for passionate Scala Engineers. We thrive in well-designed, scalable, systems which use modern functional programming based design approaches. We believe that the functional programming approach in Scala results in systems which are easier to build and maintain – we use modern, pragmatic approaches such as Tagless Final and libraries such as Cats and Cats Effect to achieve this.You will need to:

• Be proactive, pragmatic and professional, deliver results;
• Write code that make our games and related functionality run;
• Write unit and other automated tests;
• Work and communicate efficiently with the rest of the development team, including PO, front-end developers and designers;
• Actively participate in code reviews so that code delivered by you and your team is of great quality;
• Own your applications, ensure they deploy and run 24/7 on our Kubernetes platform with great performance;
• Be ready to invest the effort to become an even better developer;

To succeed in this role you should have:

• Passion for our profession, in particular Scala and Functional Programming, and improving yourself technically
• Proven experience in delivering production software using Scala or comparable experience, such as extensive JVM or Haskell experience
• Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent.

We will appreciate:

• Experience building high performance clustered systems, modular FP-based architecture, as well as actor systems, where they are necessary;
• Experience in Cats / Scalaz, Cats Effect, ZIO, Monix, Akka Actors, Persistence, Cluster & HTTP, http4s, Tagless Final and/or Scala.js.
• Experience with Event Sourcing & CQRS;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra.

We offer:

• Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time;
• Recognition from the business which translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude;
• Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world;
• A healthy mix of startup-like culture of the company, which enables us to try new approaches and technologies and remain on the edge of technological development and enterprise, with stability and supporting functions to help you focus on your job;
• Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum / Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice);
• Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly traded company;
• Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, hackathons and other benefits and perks.

Additional InformationAt Evolution, we have implemented Whistleblower Protection Policy and provide secure and confidential channels for reporting legal or ethical concerns, available to anyone with a direct or indirect work relationship with the Company, including current and former Employees, Candidates, Shareholders, Contractors, Service Providers, Trainees, Entrepreneurs, and their proxies. To submit a report, please contact us via our dedicated whistleblowing channel at

Expected salary

Location

Warszawa, mazowieckie

Job date

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:04:15 GMT

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