Senior Scala Developer

Open Systems Technologies is a national provider of smart staffing solutions, providing contract staffing, permanent placements and executive searches in the following skill areas:

- Technology

- Finance, Accounting, and Operations

- Government Services

- Legal

- Global Services

Established in New York in 1990, Open Systems Technologies is one of the largest, privately held, staffing companies in the world. We have experienced organic growth over the past 25 years and currently employ over 1,500 consultants in 16 domestic and international markets. Through our brands of Open Systems, OST Financial, OST Legal, OST Government Services, and OST Global we strive for continued expansion and excellence in the staffing industry. With the Global Services division, starting Jan-2012, Open Systems has expanded into the ITO & BPO Projects/Solutions business.

Responsibilities:

• Agile development using advanced Scala and JVM experience with SQL and the Cloudera big data platform
• Deliver solutions within a DevOps environment focusing on automation and deployment via Git, TeamCity and Nolio

Skills:

• Strong understanding of building distributed systems
• Proficient with Unix systems
• Good knowledge of functional programming
• Experience building embedded DSLs in Scala
• Ability to train in Scala and functional programming
• Recognize, select and apply appropriate design patterns, frameworks according to business benefit, maintainability and delivery priorities and constrains
• Develop, install and configure Cloudera/Hadoop based Big Data solutions - Scala, Apache Spark, SBT, Kafka, Flume, Akka, HBase, HDFS, Avro, Parquet, Kite SDK, YARN, Hive, Impala, Sqoop , Solr, and Oozie
• Experience in NoSQL (HBase) and RDBMS databases and very good knowledge of various kinds of NoSQL DB used in Big Data space (HBase, Mongo DB and Cassandra etc.) databases.
• Agile methodologies, Scrum Life Cycle (Sprint Planning, Standup, Review and Retrospective), Continuous Integration (Team City).
• Background in computer science or engineering including a university degree.
• 10+ years of experience in investment banking software development
• 10+ years of experience and proficient at using Unix systems
• 5+ years of experience in Java/Scala development
• Proficient experience building embedded DSLs in Scala
• 2+ years of experience developing, installing and configuring Cloudera/Hadoop based Big Data solutions
• 2+ years of experience in NoSQL (HBase) and RDBMS databases

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.