About The Job
For over 30 years, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers. Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.
Our Culture
At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.
Job Overview
Rewards Network (RN) is seeking a Scala Software Engineer to work with a team of peers to build out new business areas and improve our rewards platform. As a member of the team, you will work closely with other software engineers, product owner, and stakeholders to design and develop our core rewards engine and all the supporting applications. We are looking for a passionate problem solver that is highly focused, agile, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative and team-centric environment using the latest technologies.
What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)
- Work with a team of peers to architect, design and implement our new platform and supporting applications in the latest technologies.
- Apply technology to strategically solve business challenges.
- Identify, research and implement new technologies that improve efficiency, responsiveness, resiliency, and/or ease of development.
- Actively participate in and help evolve all adopted Agile/Lean/Kanban practices such as: TDD (Test Driven Development), BDD (Behavior Driven Development), stand-ups, retrospectives, continuous delivery, and knowledge sharing across team members.
- Aggressively and proactively test software throughout the development cycle using a TDD mindset - including unit testing, functional testing, load testing and automation.
- Collaborate with Quality Assurance engineers in test case construction, issue identification, as well as remediation and automation.
- Continuously improve, refine, and refactor software.
Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)
- Ability to understand, articulate, and conform to core functional and OOP programming principles
- A commitment to developing solid, tested, high performing valuable software
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of people with varying technical skill sets and business knowledge
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly assess problems and determine proper steps to resolution.
- BS in Computer Science, boot camp, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of general development experience
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Git, Team City or similar tools
- Experience working with and designing RESTful and/or event-driven microservice architectures
- 1+ years of experience on an Agile delivery team
- 1+ years of development with Scala or other functional languages
What you’ll love about us:
- Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Two dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Hybrid working environment in a new office space downtown near the Metra Train stations and catered lunches on Tuesdays.
Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity. #J-18808-Ljbffr