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Job description

Location: Remote, working CET hours

Engagement Type: Contract/Consulting

Start Date: Immediate/ within a month

Duration: 3 months with potential for extension

Are you an Akka expert with a strong grasp of Scala and distributed systems? Do you thrive on optimizing performance and enabling teams? We seek a consultant to join a focused and tactical engagement to optimize, monitor, and support a critical async business process engine for the information industries.

About The Project

Platform: Akka 2.6.21 (Akka Actors, Persisance, Akka HTTP, Core), Scala
Deployment: AWS EC2 instances
Domain: Market messaging in information industries
Challenges:

Significant performance issues and functional bugs
The original development team is unavailable
Diverse experience levels among Scala developers
Pressure to optimize the performance of long-running processes for a key customer

Your Role

As the Akka Consultant, you will:

Performance Optimization:

Review and analyze the existing Akka-based implementation.
Identify and refactor anti-patterns in the codebase.
Deliver incremental improvements leading to a final release.

Monitoring:

Enhance system visibility and monitoring.
Leverage tools like Dynatrace and telemetry to track and improve performance.

Team Enablement:

Share best practices and mentor developers to improve their understanding of Akka and Scala.
Support the team in adopting efficient coding and monitoring practices.

Requirements

Proven experience with Akka 2.6.x, Akka HTTP, and Scala.
Expertise in distributed systems and performance tuning.
Familiarity with monitoring tools and best practices for visibility in Akka-based systems.
Strong communication skills to collaborate with remote teams.
Availability to work in the CET time zone.

Good To Have

Experience with AWS EC2-based deployments.
Familiarity with telemetry systems and debugging distributed applications.
Ability to quickly understand complex domains and deliver results under pressure.

If you are ready to make an immediate impact and have the skills and expertise required, we’d love to hear from you.

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