5+ years of hands on programming experience in Scala backend development and Frameworks such as Akka/Apache Pekko, Play In depth understanding of functional programming and Implementation Such as: Try, Option, Future Monad, Collections Good knowledge on OOPS Concepts: Classes, Traits and Objects (Singleton and Companion), Case Classes  Good Understanding of Scala Language Features: Type System, Implicit/Givens Knowledge of Scala 3 Syntax Experience on MVC Architecture, Knowledge of Frameworks such as: Akka/Apache Pekko, Play 2.9, Play 3.0 Writing Test cases using Testing Frameworks such as Scalatest, working with config files such as HOCON Experience with REST APIs and Swagger Docs Good Knowledge of Build Tools such as: Gradle & SBT in depth Basic knowledge of Kafka, Nifi, Redis, Elasticsearch Basic knowledge of Docker & Kubernetes Experience with SQL and NoSQL DB Experience on using GIT , resolving conflicts, working with branches Strong programming skills using data structures and algorithms Excellent analytical skills Good communication skills