Scala Developer

About Playtech

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B and B2C businesses. Both divisions leverage Playtech’s proprietary technology to deliver innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining betting and gaming experience.

Playtech is the gambling industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry's most popular product verticals, including, casino, live casino, sports betting, bingo and poker. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtech.com & www.playtechpeople.com

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech’s overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career? 

Playtech's Gpas unit is looking for an experienced Scala Developer with excellent engineering skills.

Your influential mission. You will...  

• Participate in software design, development, refactoring, support, and code reviews to maintain high development standards
• Collaborate with platform teams to deliver great results
• Work autonomously on your tasks with little or no supervision
• Optimize the platform to achieve maximum throughput and scalability
• Be proactive and go beyond expectations

Components for success. You...

• Have strong experience developing server-side in Scala for at least 2 years
• Understand JVM, data structures, and algorithms
• Possess excellent knowledge of parallel and concurrent programming
• Have experience with Pekko Http, Actor, Cluster, Persistence, and Streams
• Have proven experience developing high-scale distributed systems with complex interfaces and integrations
• Exhibit an engineering mindset: self-motivated, initiative, quick learner, team player, critical thinker
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving prowess
• Have a desire to document and share knowledge with colleagues
• Communicate well in English

You'll get extra points for...

• Couchbase
• AWS S3 and DynamoDB
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Linux

Thrive in a culture that values...   

• Possibility to work with a product company
• Personalised professional growth
• Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
• Educational possibilities
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical insurance
• Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station)
• Flexible work format - remote, office-based or mixed
• Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays
• Corporate events and team buildings

GPAS TEAM

Gaming Platform as a Service aka GPAS is Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform that currently has more than 1000 games running on it. 

GPAS is a highly accessible, multi-tenant, scalable, distributed and event-driven system written in Scala with the help of the Akka framework. 

We use Couchbase as a hot storage and AWS S3/DynamoDB as our cold storage to ensure we can handle nearly a billion transactions per day. 

We have a complex solution that provides capabilities to run a variety of different slot, and multiplayer games and our architecture supports an extension to support other types of games.

We adopt Scrum methodology to deliver new features on time. 

Tech stack:

• Sbt, Scala 3
• Pekko(http, actor, cluster, persistence, streams, connectors)
• Typesafe config
• Couchbase
• AWS S3 and DynamoDB
• Play Json
• Scalatest
• Docker + Nomad or K8s

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.