Scala Developer (Senior-level)
Playtech's GPAS unit is looking for a senior-level Scala Developer with excellent engineering skills.
The influential mission of this role involves participating in software design, development, refactoring, support, and code reviews to maintain high development standards. The developer will collaborate with platform teams to deliver great results, work autonomously on tasks with little or no supervision, and optimise the platform to achieve maximum throughput and scalability. Proactiveness and going beyond expectations are key.
The GPAS unit is Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform, supporting over 1,000 games and handling nearly a billion transactions per day. It is a highly accessible, multi-tenant, scalable, distributed, and event-driven system written in Scala with the Akka framework. The team adopts Scrum methodology to deliver new features on time.
- 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.
- Optimise the platform to achieve maximum throughput and scalability.
- Be proactive and go beyond expectations.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience developing server-side applications in Scala (required).
- Strong working knowledge of Scala (preferably Scala 3) and SBT (Scala Build Tool) (required).
- Solid experience with Pekko/Akka, including HTTP, Actors, Cluster, Persistence, Streams, and connectors (required).
- Strong understanding of the JVM, data structures, and algorithms (required).
- Excellent knowledge of parallel and concurrent programming principles (required).
- Practical experience building high-scale, distributed systems with complex interfaces and integrations (required).
- Ability to take ownership, drive solutions forward, and continuously improve systems and processes (required).
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and critical thinking (required).
- Willingness to document solutions and actively share knowledge with colleagues (required).
- Clear and effective communication in English (required).
- Previous experience in the iGaming domain (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with Typesafe Config (nice-to-have).
- Hands-on experience with Couchbase or other document-based NoSQL database (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with AWS services such as S3 and DynamoDB (nice-to-have).
- Experience using Play JSON (nice-to-have).
- Proficiency with ScalaTest for testing (nice-to-have).
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker, Nomad, or Kubernetes (nice-to-have).
- Confidence working in Linux environments (nice-to-have).
- Friendly, cooperative, and goal-oriented team of experienced professionals.
- Clear goals and a results-driven environment.
- Open communication, knowledge sharing, and mutual support across teams.
- Initiative-taking and confident approach at the workplace.
- Collaborative and supportive culture as well as stable long term career opportunities.
- Global scope and inclusive working environment where you can engage with diverse teams and perspectives.
- Constant learning and development opportunities and professional growth programs.
- Active lifestyle and mental well-being, supported through sports classes, master classes, and monthly well-being activities.
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.