Back-End Engineer (Scala)

Chili Piper is a B2B SaaS startup. We fuel today's high-growth revenue teams. And our advanced routing and booking software make it possible for sales and marketing teams to book meetings instantly and generate more revenue while spending less.

We're a certified unicorn breeder™ with amazing customers like RingCentral, Airbnb, Square, Intuit, Spotify, Twilio, and many other cool logos.

We're growing fast. And we don't mean that in the cliché way. We are sitting on fresh rounds of funding, and are ready to take over the world (in the most civil and appropriate way possible, of course).

Job Description

Chili Piper is seeking talented, motivated engineers to join our fully remote team building interactive data applications. As a part of our growing back-end team, you will collaborate with others throughout our organization and technology stack to build products that are revolutionizing the way our clients achieve their business goals.

On the back-end team, we invite you to bring your experience and perspective to conversations about the future growth of our applications and environment. We work closely together, with a healthy and non-combative review process aimed at improving code as well as developing each other's skills. In short, we strive to write solid, thoroughly tested, and readable code; and we are seeking a new contributor to our already highly effective team.

Our Tech Stack

• Play framework (Scala)
• Akka, Akka-http
• Cats, Cats Effect, Circe, Tapir, Http4s
• MongoDB, Google PubSub

What You'll Do

• Build API to a multi-tenant backend services to enable easy access by internal applications, clients, and partners
• Continuously integrate and ship code into the cloud environment
• Develop applications from ground up using a modern technology stack such as fs2, Cats, Tapir, Cats Effect (but not limited to it).
• Maintain and improve parts of the existing codebase
• Perform code reviews
• Participate in defining the architecture of modern tools and runtime for operating your code such as GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• Work directly with Product Owners to deliver products in a collaborative and agile environment
• As a part of growing team, you will collaborate with engineers throughout our organization and technology stack to build products that are revolutionizing the way our clients achieve their business goals

Qualifications

Who You Are

• You are passionate to be part of cutting edge projects and are motivated by delivering world-class products with great architecture on an aggressive schedule
• You are ready in a dynamic environment in which the requirements are not always well defined and priorities change frequently
• You are interested in the latest trends and technologies, especially in functional programming
• You love to learn new technologies and mentor engineers to raise the bar on your team
• You use, or are passionate about learning, functional programming the right way, GCP, Docker, Scala

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of experience in Scala with solid understanding of FP
• Production experience with Scala modern functional stack like Cats, Cats Effect (Monix/ZIO)
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing high performance systems, modular FP-based architecture
• Hands-on experience in both relational and NoSQL data stores
• Experience working with Scala http stack
• Experience in designing and implementing event based systems is a great benefit
• Solid understanding of continuous integration, deployment and monitoring
• Self motivated and self-directed
• Strong English communication and documentation skills

Additional Information

How We Work

• Freedom and flexibility. We're a 100% distributed team working from around the world. Our team members can work from wherever they want in the world, as long as they show up on our weekly all hands meeting on Zoom.
• Solve interesting problems. The software landscape has exploded. There are dozens of solutions for each problem. We want to be different. We come up with new angles on existing problems or invent better solutions to help companies with their sales and marketing. Then we turn these ideas into beautiful, smart software.
• Autonomy and ownership. Working on a distributed team means you don't have someone micromanaging you or looking over your shoulder to make sure you're getting things done. We're a team of do-ers who take full ownership for their results.
• Be helpful. Our first value as a company is help. Help our customers be successful. Help our prospects get the right information and make the right decision whether or not it includes our products. Help our team members reach their full potential.

The Perks

• Unlimited Vacation
• Company Offered 401k Plan
• Generous Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• WeWork membership so you can work from anywhere
• Any equipment/software/tech that you need to do your job