Back-End Scala Engineer

Acara Solutions, An Aleron Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Acara Solutions, An Aleron Company is seeking an experienced Scala backend engineer to join within 30 days. You will design, develop and maintain scalable back-end services in a cloud-native, event-driven environment.

You will implement Event Sourcing, CQRS, and DDD using Kafka, build high-performance APIs, and collaborate with Product, Front-End, and SRE teams to deliver customer-centric solutions. Strong communication and ownership are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Scala software engineering experience with strong backend development skills.
• Expertise in modern backend patterns and scalable cloud-native services.
• Experience contributing to system architecture and API decisions.
• Event Sourcing, CQRS, DDD, and Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
• AWS cloud-native solutions with Docker and Kubernetes proficiency.
• Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable back-end services in a cloud-native environment.
• Contribute to architecture, distributed systems, and API design decisions.
• Implement Event Sourcing, CQRS, DDD, and Kafka-based event-driven patterns.
• Build, scale, and maintain high-performance APIs and fault-tolerant systems.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS to deploy cloud-native solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Front-End, and SRE teams to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Scala

Backend development

Kafka

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

API design

CI/CD

Tools

Pekko/Akka

Cats

Cats Effect

Java

Python

Job description

Requires someone to join within 30 days or less

• Require 12+ years of Scala software engineering experience with strong expertise in modern backend development practices.Design, develop, and maintain scalable, highly available back-end services in a cloud-native, event-driven environment.
• Develop clean, maintainable, and testable code using Scala (Pekko/Akka, Cats, Cats Effect) and Java; Python optional
• Contribute to system architecture, distributed systems, microservices, and API design decisions.
• Implement and support Event Sourcing, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Build, scale, and maintain resilient, high-performance APIs and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Front-End, and SRE teams to deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, and software delivery processes.
• Work effectively within Agile product development teams with strong ownership and autonomy.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, a growth mindset, strong communication skills, and the confidence to challenge ideas constructively.