Senior Server (Scala) Engineer

Redzone helps manufacturers make more stuff for less while greatly improving the employee experience. While there is a lot of hype around digital transformation, the factory of the future, and Industry 4.0, the focus has been on the equipment and technology – not the people. At Redzone, we are all about the people, what we call “the connected worker.” We make frontline teams more engaged and more productive so their lives improve while contributing to positive business outcomes. We do this by combining exceptional software and world class coaching, giving our customers an average productivity increase of 22% in 90 days. Redzone brings together Production, Maintenance and Quality teams, improving the communications between those teams to resolve issues and increase output. Decision-making happens on the shop floor by the people doing the work, in real time, for immediate impact and a better overall employee experience.

With over 1000 customers, 2,000 plants, and 500,000 users, Redzone is changing the way people work – one plant at a time.

This is a full-time position for direct hire to QAD-no visa sponsorship available. Employee must be currently located in the UK, no relocation assistance available.

Computer skills

- API-first design using Open Api Spec (OAS)
- Generating Tapir endpoints and models from OAS
- Knowledgeable of maintaining versioned API contracts
- Transforming objects with Chimney
- Async programming with Cats Effect
- Publishing and consuming Avro formatted Kafka messages
- Relational table design with PostgreSQL
- Transactional database access with Slick or Doobie
- Knowledgeable of database migration patterns, such as, expand and contract
- Writing observable and testable code using libraries such as Specs2 and ScalaMock
- Comfortable refactoring and building in large legacy code bases
- Modularized programming mentality
- Trunk Based Development
- Launch Darkly Feature Flagging
- CI/CD GitHub Actions
- AWS Cloud
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Docker

Responsibilities

To develop and maintain the QAD Redzone API Backend (Scala), ensuring a seamless and efficient user experience for manufacturing front-line teams.; Develop and maintain the MCP server to support AI integrations, enhancing our internal tooling capabilities.; Improve the use of OpenSearch within the backend application; Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.; Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest Scala and Web technologies.; Provide subject matter expertise during incidents to resolve customer issues quickly.; Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.; Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.; Write testable and maintainable code.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant professional experience as a Backend Engineer; Required languages: Scala (5+ years) and Java