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Scala Developer (Bristol)

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires experienced Scala Developers, to join their team in their clients' office in Bristol (remote work may be possible).

This is 12 months temporary contract, to start on the 18th January.

The right candidates should have experience developing applications in Scala, with a keen interest in functional programming principles (experienced Java Developers may also be considered).

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement data processing applications for batch and Real Time delivery of information to end users
• Interpret and analyse business use-cases and feature requests and translate into test cases and technical designs
• Take ownership of development tasks, participate in scrum events and user story refinement
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce high level system designs and provide input into decisions on architecture
• Develop, test and implement code to departmental standards and scrum development principles
• Work closely with business colleagues to understand and shape requirements and solutions
• Ensure compliance with all relevant Group and DS&C procedures, guidelines and reporting requirements as well as any relevant regulatory and statutory requirements
• Mentor and coach junior team members in a range of skills and behaviours, to include both technical and development life cycle best practice
• Positively influence others by demonstrating core company values and behaviours

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• Minimum 5 years of development experience
• Familiarity with agile development methodology eg Scrum, Kanban
• Familiarity with Financial Services Sector
• Familiarity with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
• Experience developing applications in Scala, with a keen interest in functional programming principles (experienced Java Developers may also be considered)
• Committed to rigorous testing using frameworks such as ScalaTest
• Experience using the Apache Spark data processing framework
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as Maven, SBT, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, UrbanCode
• Experience working with the Hadoop framework, and an understanding of the common modules and their inner workings (eg HDFS, Yarn, Hive, HBase and Kafka)
• Demonstrable experience on big data or advanced analytics projects
• Strong SQL, ideally with both relational and dimensional Datamodelling experience
• Ensure that communication to the business is professional, clear and appropriate
• A good understanding of design and software engineering principles
• A commitment to writing clean, understandable code
• Understanding of testing concepts, methodologies and processes
• Keen advocate of Agile methodologies

Scala Developer - Functional Programming - urgently required for a global technology software house. This is a 6-month CONTRACT position, based in Europe, working remotely. Though my client will consider other continents. The day rate is negotiable based upon experience.

As the Scala Developer you must be a good functional programmer, ideally with Scala library knowledge. Experience with Scalaz and Cats will be good. Alternatively, theoretical knowledge of Scalaz and cats with a passion to gain practical experience will be considered.

You will work on highly complex data driven projects with fellow developers who have previously worked for the top tier tech giants. An excellent learning curve is on offer with this project.

The following technologies will be nice to have (not mandatory):

AKKA

Play 

SBT

Python

JavaScript

If this role is of interest, please apply ASAP, my client is ready to interview suitable candidates, 

We are looking for a strong software engineer with proven hands-on experience writing production-quality code in Scala & Python on top of the Spark ML library. This project involves a library & use cases for OCR on top of Apache Spark, so knowledge in these areas is a big plus. Proven experience and/or an advanced degree is highly preferred. 

We are the team building the Spark NLP and Spark OCR libraries and are looking for outstanding engineers and data scientists to join the team. This career opportunity that will enable you to expand your knowledge of state-of-the-art tools and techniques, work with an international team of data science experts, and make a positive impact with your work.

More details about the project are available here: https://nlp.johnsnowlabs.com/docs/en/ocr

• ·         Scala (3+ years) 
• ·         Functional programming 
• ·         Spark (2+ years) 
• ·         Python (2+ years) 
• ·         OCR, Computer Vision, Image processing experience is a big plus

• We are a fully virtual company, collaborating across 22 countries.
• Open to candidates worldwide - work remotely from anywhere.
• This is a contract opportunity, not a full-time employment role.
• This role requires the availability of at least 30 hours per week.

Jefferson Frank are working with a leading household brand that are looking to strengthen their Financial Integrity team significantly due to exponential growth. Currently there are multiple openings and you will be joining at an excellent time working on industry leading projects.

We are seeking talented Engineers that are experienced in high impact development/engineering teams, that move fast and come to prompt decisions whilst working as a team.

Ideally you will have experience in working with modern tools/technologies and large distributed systems.

We are looking for for the following:

This contract will be 6 months initially and fully remote.

Please apply, or feel free to get in touch for further information - Click here to contact this recruiter

Contact Name: Liam Porter
Reference: TJ/3086/12112020-009_1610391533
Job ID: 2886705

Jefferson Frank are working with a leading household brand that are looking to strengthen their Financial Integrity team significantly due to exponential growth. Currently there are multiple openings and you will be joining at an excellent time working on industry leading projects.

We are seeking talented Engineers that are experienced in high impact development/engineering teams, that move fast and come to prompt decisions whilst working as a team.

Ideally you will have experience in working with modern tools/technologies and large distributed systems.

We are looking for for the following:

• 3-5 years experience with Go (Golang)
• Ruby on Rails or Scala experience would be a great desirable
• Experience working on critical financial distributed systems
• Use of AWS Containers / working on Cloud based platforms
• Experience designing, Developing and debugging complex distributed systems.
• Comfortable working with sometimes unfamiliar codebases, including internal, open source and 3rd party code

This contract will be 6 months initially and fully remote.

Please apply, or feel free to get in touch for further information -

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