Sr Scala Engineer - Remote

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The Hartford is looking for a Sr Scala Engineer to join our Feature Integration team within Data Science Enablement organization. This person is expected to be adaptable and a quick learner to support our Entity Resolution tech stack. The candidate must possess strong communication skills to communicate with the business and other delivery team.

Responsibilities:

•     Estimate, design, build, test and deliver high quality code
•     Develop and test fully functional components
•     Collaborate with team members to define requirements and delivery planning activities
•     Contributes to design, estimate, build, peer-review, and test practices with minimal     supervision
•     Contributor to Engineering Culture
•     Teamwork, critical thinking, and effective communication
•     Awareness and working knowledge of code quality tools
•     Expertise in using IDEs, technology frameworks and any toolkits used for development
•     Testing skills, awareness, and proficiency
•     Organization skills, prioritization, deadlines, managing expectations
•     Creativity, critical thinking, decision making
•     Self-driven, continuous learner
•     Devops CI and CD automation, configuration management, alerts, and monitoring
•     Software quality practices including peer reviews
•     Find opportunities for continuous improvements in software delivery practices.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in related field required 
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• 2+ years of hands-on software development experience using Scala (both Object Oriented and functional programming)
• Experience using Javadoc and/or Scaladoc
• Experience with creation of spark scala jobs for data transformation and aggregation
• Experience with unit tests for spark scala jobs
• Scala development experience with AWS EMR
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Cloud (AWS) technologies (i.e. S3, EMR)
• Experience with big data technologies (i.e. Hadoop, Spark, Hive, etc.) 
• Experience with Entity Resolution.
• Experience with Quantexa software

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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