Senior Scala Developer

About the role: As a  Senior Scala Developer , you'll play a pivotal role in building an advanced, low-latency trading platform that bridges the gap between traditional finance and Web3.0. Your expertise in  Scala FP and ZIO  will help shape our core infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for institutional clients and high-net-worth investors. This isn't just another development role—it's an opportunity to  own and drive engineering excellence , collaborate with a talented global team, and build a cutting-edge platform that processes millions of transactions daily. If you thrive in a high-impact environment where innovation meets financial technology. Join us remotely, you can be located anywhere around the CET time zone, as our work is 100% offline. The position is full-time. About ICEO: We are a venture builder that has been creating innovative startups for the past twelve years. We're on a mission to accelerate growth, enhance operational capabilities, and secure investments for our portfolio companies. With a team of more than 150 people from 25 countries, we leverage repeatable company-building processes and best practices to derisk scaling and increase the probability of success. Our multiple exits so far stand as a testament to that. Join us to build the future together The project you will work on: AdmiTrade is an automated high-frequency trading platform for both cryptocurrency and financial instrument markets. As we enter our next growth phase, we are developing a platform specifically designed for institutional clients and high-net-worth investors. This platform will provide access to deep liquidity, flexible credit lines, and strategies for passive capital growth. AdmiTrade offers technology and deep liquidity for the tokenized financial ecosystem (Web 3.0). Our services encompass providing liquidity for centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX), animating secondary markets for tokens, and introducing new tokens to the market. We leverage our robust in-house technology infrastructure to monitor all market data in real-time, allowing us to gain insights that facilitate the building, implementation, and scaling of new strategies using both machine learning algorithms and those developed by our analytics department. Technical stack: Language & approach:  Scala FP, Zio. Task management :  Jira. Observability:  Grafana, Kibana. Infrastructure:  Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Google Cloud Platform, ArgoCD. Work methodology:  Kanban. Technical challenges we face: Lots of data  - processing millions of transactions and market pairs data points daily. Technical complexity  - integrating with various exchanges requires us to carefully design our software and establish essential monitoring systems to ensure a robust platform. Scalability  - developing solutions to efficiently process and store millions of transactions for subsequent analysis. Latency  - reducing communication latency across multiple physical regions to a minimum. What we expect from you: Over 4 years of experience in backend development. Extensive proficiency in  Scala  with a minimum of  3 years of commercial experience. Minimum 1 year of commercial  experience in  functional programming  and  Scala Zio stack. Considerable expertise and proven track record of successfully designing and building web systems based on microservices architecture. Knowledge and familiarity with REST API principles and best practices. Experience in enhancing application performance through optimization techniques. Familiarity with multithreading concepts and distributed computing. Self-motivated and accountable, capable of working independently with minimal supervision. Great communication skills with both technical and non-technical people. Proficient in both written and spoken  English , at a  B2   level  or higher. About the role: As a  Senior Scala Developer , you'll play a pivotal role in building an advanced, low-latency trading platform that bridges the gap between traditional finance and Web3.0. Your expertise in  Scala FP and ZIO  will help shape our core infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for institutional clients and high-net-worth investors. This isn't just another development role—it's an opportunity to  own and drive engineering excellence , collaborate with a talented global team, and build a cutting-edge platform that processes millions of transactions daily. If you thrive in a high-impact environment where innovation meets financial technology. Join us remotely, you can be located anywhere around the CET time zone, as our work is 100% offline. The position is full-time. About ICEO: We are a venture builder that has been creating innovative startups for the past twelve years. We're on a mission to accelerate growth, enhance operational capabilities, and secure investments for our portfolio companies. With a team of more than 150 people from 25 countries, we leverage repeatable company-building processes and best practices to derisk scaling and increase the probability of success. Our multiple exits so far stand as a testament to that. Join us to build the future together The project you will work on: AdmiTrade is an automated high-frequency trading platform for both cryptocurrency and financial instrument markets. As we enter our next growth phase, we are developing a platform specifically designed for institutional clients and high-net-worth investors. This platform will provide access to deep liquidity, flexible credit lines, and strategies for passive capital growth. AdmiTrade offers technology and deep liquidity for the tokenized financial ecosystem (Web 3.0). Our services encompass providing liquidity for centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX), animating secondary markets for tokens, and introducing new tokens to the market. We leverage our robust in-house technology infrastructure to monitor all market data in real-time, allowing us to gain insights that facilitate the building, implementation, and scaling of new strategies using both machine learning algorithms and those developed by our analytics department. Technical stack: Language & approach:  Scala FP, Zio. Task management :  Jira. Observability:  Grafana, Kibana. Infrastructure:  Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Google Cloud Platform, ArgoCD. Work methodology:  Kanban. Technical challenges we face: Lots of data  - processing millions of transactions and market pairs data points daily. Technical complexity  - integrating with various exchanges requires us to carefully design our software and establish essential monitoring systems to ensure a robust platform. Scalability  - developing solutions to efficiently process and store millions of transactions for subsequent analysis. Latency  - reducing communication latency across multiple physical regions to a minimum. ,[Develop and own software solutions: Ensure code quality, maintainability and performance by adhering to coding standards, Engage in the full development lifecycle: Participate in all stages, from gathering and analyzing requirements to implementation, testing, and monitoring, while building strong relationships and trust through consistent delivery., Provide technical guidance: Offer technical support throughout the product lifecycle, including the early stages of product development., Participate in architectural discussions, Own and deliver engineering objectives, Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with engineers, analytics and other teams to navigate through varying levels of detail., Tackle challenging problems: Address complex issues in the domains of finance and distributed systems., Review code: Conduct code reviews to ensure best practices and quality standards are maintained., Provide technical support: Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues with the trading platform, delivering timely and robust solutions., Contribute to documentation: Enhance technical documentation for the solutions provided., Support and mentor other team members] Requirements: Scala, REST API, Microservices architecture, Functional programming, Git, Communication skills, zio, Crypto Tools: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Agile, Kanban. Additionally: International projects, Small teams.