Remote Scala Engineer for AI Code Review & Systems

SME Careers; Malaysia; Remote; MYR 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking an experienced Scala Engineer to work remotely on an hourly basis. You will review AI-generated Scala code, system designs, and explanations, delivering high-quality reference implementations and step-by-step reasoning for complex problems.

You will assess solutions for correctness, safety, performance, and prompt adherence, and you will rate AI responses while identifying concurrency and JVM-related issues in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years building production systems using Scala.
• Expert-level proficiency in Scala 2.13+ and/or Scala 3.
• Strong JVM fundamentals and performance tuning.
• Experience with concurrency and effect systems (cats-effect, ZIO) or actor-based systems (Akka/Pekko).
• Experience designing services in distributed environments (microservices, messaging/streaming).
• Strong testing practices (ScalaTest, MUnit, ScalaCheck) and CI/CD familiarity.
• Build tooling and dependency management (sbt, Maven/Gradle interop).
• Proficiency in English (C1) written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated Scala code, system designs, and explanations for correctness and clarity.
• Produce high-quality reference implementations and step-by-step reasoning for complex problems.
• Rate and compare AI responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.
• Identify concurrency, JVM perf, and resource handling issues and propose fixes.

Skills

Scala 2.13+/3

Back-end Scala

JVM fundamentals

Concurrency/Effect systems

Testing (ScalaTest)

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

sbt

Maven/Gradle interop

Docker

Job description

SME Careers is seeking an experienced Scala Engineer to work remotely on an hourly basis. You will review AI-generated Scala code, system designs, and explanations, delivering high-quality reference implementations and step-by-step reasoning for complex problems.

You will assess solutions for correctness, safety, performance, and prompt adherence, and you will rate AI responses while identifying concurrency and JVM-related issues in distributed systems.