Remote Senior Scala Engineer: Build Scalable Systems

Xebia; España; On-site; PHP 3,631,000 - 4,720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Learning budget €900 annually

Private health insurance

Wellbeing program

Wellness/Referral programs

Job summary

Xebia is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer to join a highly collaborative engineering team working on scalable, reliable systems using Scala and functional programming.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, shape technical decisions, and help maintain engineering standards while delivering high-quality software in a fully remote setup. Extensive backend experience and strong English communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Scala and functional programming paradigms.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, including source control, CI/CD, and testing approaches.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, including high-throughput systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and technologies (compute, databases, storage, containers, serverless, especially S3 and EKS).
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven or asynchronous architectures.
• Ability to evaluate engineering trade-offs against business requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to design and deliver scalable software solutions.
• Build performant solutions capable of scaling with increasing business demands.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and code quality through reviews.
• Lead and participate in architecture discussions and planning sessions.
• Design simple, pragmatic solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Maintain high standards of code quality through pull requests and feedback.
• Show accountability and ownership at both individual and team levels.
• Draft technical proposals and provide feedback on designs.
• Contribute to root cause analyses and continuous improvement after production issues.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Kafka

English communication

Tools

Lightbend Akka

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

New Relic

Job description

Xebia is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer to join a highly collaborative engineering team working on scalable, reliable systems using Scala and functional programming.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, shape technical decisions, and help maintain engineering standards while delivering high-quality software in a fully remote setup. Extensive backend experience and strong English communication are essential.