Staff Scala Backend Engineer - Cloud-Native Microservices

Queen Square Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Square Recruitment is seeking a Staff Engineer to join a growing backend team delivering large-scale services used by millions of users. You will design, build, and optimise resilient backend services with Scala, leveraging the Typelevel ecosystem and modern FP principles.

Work with cross-functional teams to guide architecture, improve standards, and deploy cloud-based apps on AWS and Kubernetes. You will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to design

Qualifications

• 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services using Scala.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

REST API design

Distributed systems

Code reviews/CI/CD

On-call support

Java

Golang

Python

Team mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Cats

Cats Effect

http4s

fs2

Circe

ZIO

Haskell

PureScript

Job description

Queen Square Recruitment is seeking a Staff Engineer to join a growing backend team delivering large-scale services used by millions of users. You will design, build, and optimise resilient backend services with Scala, leveraging the Typelevel ecosystem and modern FP principles.

Work with cross-functional teams to guide architecture, improve standards, and deploy cloud-based apps on AWS and Kubernetes. You will mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to design