Scala Backend Engineer

Company Overview:

Intel 471 empowers enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations to win the cybersecurity war using near-real-time insights into the latest malicious actors, relationships, threat patterns, and imminent attacks relevant to their businesses. Founded in 2014, Intel 471 provides comprehensive intelligence and monitoring on threat actors. The company’s centralized TITAN platform enables intelligence and security professionals to access structured information, dashboards, timely alerts and intelligence reporting via web portal or API integration.

Our pedigree is unmatched and we count upon a team with experience operating in the intelligence services, military, law enforcement and private threat intelligence companies in nearly every continent on earth.

The Role:

Intel 471 is looking for a Scala Engineer to join our world-class team. The role is located in Europe on a remote basis. You will be developing high volume data engineering products, combining data from multiple sources into a single stream, developing both client facing APIs and data processing systems, building large scale projects from scratch and working in the cyber intelligence industry. The role drives the development of high-throughput data processing and visualization software running on a cloud platform.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Participating in agile development projects for batch and real time data processing
• Resolving production issues with other team members and teams
• Specifying and implementing APIs and other I/O interfaces for data queuing, database storage, and application-to-application data exchange
• Being confident and able to fully converse in English for day to day communication
• Applying your technical proficiency across different stages of the software development life cycle including requirements elicitation, application architecture definition and design
• Exploring, understanding, and implementing next-generation technologies (in particular within the Scala ecosystem)
• Writing and reviewing excellent code in Scala and bringing value to customers by delivering an award-winning product to new heights

Education, Experience & Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience in Scala with solid understanding of FP
• Production experience with Scala modern functional stack like Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO
• Hands-on experience in both relational and NoSQL data stores such as Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL or S3
• Experience with microservice architecture
• Experience developing using docker containers or Kubernetes
• Basic experience writing REST APIs
• Understanding test driven development

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-friendly culture
• Wellness programs
• Employee recognition program
• A variety of professional development opportunities
• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation

Our Culture:

The Intel 471 team is constantly growing and is always on the lookout for talented professionals who seek to operate on the forefront of the fight against threat actors impacting our customers and partners. Our culture of humility and quiet professionalism is a core attribute of Intel 471 and everyone within it. Our culture is collaborative, supportive and fast-paced. We're a mission-driven company. We're looking for talented, 'can-do' minded people with a passion for always doing the right thing.

We believe in supporting a progressive culture that allows all our people to be themselves, enjoy exciting opportunities and grow with us. That's why our culture is founded on our core values of openness, inclusion, integrity and client focus, which set the tone for how we work together and treat each other in order to empower us all – and foster a unique team spirit. View our Culture Guide to find out more about us and what it’s like to work for Intel 471!