Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead Backend (Scala) Engineer to join our team.Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers. Responsibilities: • Developing scalable backend services • Designing complex database solutions • Designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs • Day-to-day work with AWS • Working in cross-functional teams • Ready to take ownership and independently drive topics  Requirements: • At least 6+ years of hands-on coding experience • Strong expertise with Scala is a must. • Experience with Java and Spring Boot. • Experience with Object-Oriented/Functional Programming • Experience in designing fast, scalable, and responsive APIs • Experience developing cloud-native apps using AWS  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL (DDB) databases • Experience with Kafka • Good communication skills (fluent English, at least Upper-Intermediate) Nice-to-Have: • Experience with Search databases - ElasticSearch (using it as a search engine); • Frontend experience - JavaScript or Typescript  • DevOps Experience - DataDog, Opsgenie, etc.