Scala Software Engineer Newcastle

Skills

• Accessibility-focused UI engineering
• API design
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Context API
• Cucumber
• Cypress
• Data validation & transformation
• Debugging live issues
• Design Systems
• Frontend performance optimization
• Functional Programming (Cats)
• Gatling
• Git
• Grafana
• Jest
• JSON/BSON modeling
• Kibana
• Log analysis
• MongoDB
• Next.js
• Play Framework
• Problem solving & root-cause analysis
• React
• React Query
• React Router
• Redux Saga
• Redux Toolkit
• Repository layer development
• Responsive UI
• Sass
• Scala 3
• ScalaCheck
• ScalaTest
• SEO improvements
• Splunk
• Storybook
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• TypeScript
• WireMock

Experience

Aug 2024 - Present

Software Engineer at Accenture

– Developed and maintained backend services using Scala 3 and Play Framework,
focusing on clean, functional, and testable code.
– Implemented property-based testing with ScalaCheck, including custom generators for
domain models and data transformations.
– Worked with Cats syntax and functional programming patterns to improve code
readability and reliability.
– Migrated project components from Scala 2.x to 3.x, resolving compatibility issues and
refactoring breaking changes.
– Built and tested utilities for generating and validating domain identifiers using custom
logic and property-based generators.
– Collaborated in an agile environment, contributing to code reviews, refactoring, and test
coverage improvements.
– Improved reliability and maintainability of backend services through testing,
refactoring and FP-based design.

Jan 2023 - May 2024

Front End Engineer at Salecycle

– Customised and extended React Flow to meet business requirements, increasing user
engagement and reducing bounce rate.
– Worked closely with product teams to shape feature requirements and propose
technical solutions, improving user retention and customer satisfaction.
– Built a personalised client dashboard using React and Storybook, introducing a reusable
design system and design tokens.
– Implemented unit and integration tests using Jest and Cypress, reducing post-release
defects and improving reliability.
– Optimised state management and rendering using Context API, React Query and React
Router, improving UI responsiveness.
– Integrated API workflows with AWS and CI/CD pipelines, improving development
efficiency and deployment reliability.

Jun 2021 - Dec 2022

Front End Engineer at Snapp

– Resolved technical and performance issues across the web platform and PWA using
React, TypeScript and Next.js, improving stability and user experience.
– Supported alignment between web, mobile and e-commerce platforms using Storybook
and responsive design practices.
– Led end-to-end delivery of features using React, Redux Saga, Redux Toolkit and Next.js,
ensuring performance and scalability.
– Collaborated with marketing teams to optimise website structure and content,
contributing to significant SEO improvements.

Septr 2019 - Jun 2021

Front End Engineer at Fanap

– Developed a unified design system using Storybook and migrated legacy JavaScript
projects to React and TypeScript.
– Improved performance and functionality across gaming platforms using React,
JavaScript and Sass.

Education

2010 - 2014

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Software Engineering at Tehran Jonoob University