Senior / Strong Middle Scala Engineer

A cross-functional engineering team is modernizing and expanding cloud-based services and data products used by a global network of dealers, enterprise customers, and internal business units. The work delivers scalable APIs, event-driven services, and analytics pipelines that support quoting, ordering, asset telemetry, diagnostics, and lifecycle support for heavy equipment in the field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Scala.
• Build reliable event-processing, notification, and integration services.
• Develop APIs and distributed-system components in highly available environments.
• Deliver scalable, fault-tolerant solutions that provide business value.
• Contribute to system architecture, technical design, and engineering decisions.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Support integration, acceptance, and quality-assurance testing activities.
• Maintain high software quality through testing, reviews, documentation, and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence within the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in Agile environments.
• Own services throughout their lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and production support.
• Provide 6 hours of overlap with US Central Time on business days, ending no later than 2 PM CT.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining Scala backend services and distributed systems in production.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, preferably with Java.
• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems using Akka (Streams, Actors, HTTP, Persistence) or Apache Pekko.
• 3+ years of AWS experience.
• Strong experience designing and operating event-driven distributed systems using Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or equivalent messaging platforms.
• Strong experience with functional programming concepts and libraries such as Cats, Cats Effect, or ZIO.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL and SQL query-development experience.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures and stream-processing systems.
• Experience with microservice architectures.
• Experience working in Agile software-development environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and solution design.
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives.

Nice to have

• Java 17+ or 21 experience.
• Spring Boot experience.
• Hibernate/JPA experience.
• DynamoDB experience.
• CloudFormation experience.
• Flyway experience.
• Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks experience.
• Experience processing telemetry or event data at scale.

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible work schedule.
• Fixed quarterly financial bonus for a B2B contract, covering the average market price of private medical care and a sport card.
• Gifts for birthdays, weddings, and child births.
• E-learning accounts for Coursera, O'Reilly, and Udemy.
• Corporate language school.