Scala Engineer — Build Scalable Event-Driven Analytics

Synerise; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Synerise in Poland is seeking a highly skilled Scala Engineer to join our backend team. You will work on event processing and analytics, designing scalable architectures, and delivering high-performance services in a microservices environment on Kubernetes, with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for observability.

We value deep knowledge of Kafka, JVM internals, and cloud platforms (Azure/GCP), enabling reliable data pipelines and real-time insights for enterprise clients in Retail, Banking, and more.

Qualifications

• Strong Scala skills with production experience using an effect system like Cats Effect, ZIO, or Akka.
• Experience designing or significantly contributing to event-driven systems in production.
• Deep knowledge of Apache Kafka including partitioning and consumer groups.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience to diagnose pod issues and scaling.
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases and choosing the right tool.
• Solid debugging and troubleshooting in distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture and patterns for processing and storing high-volume datasets.
• Build software with a focus on performance and optimization.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed designs.
• Analyze large data stores to surface meaningful insights.

Skills

Scala

Event-driven architecture

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL databases

JVM internals

Observability

Distributed systems

Cloud (Azure / GCP)

Job description

Synerise in Poland is seeking a highly skilled Scala Engineer to join our backend team. You will work on event processing and analytics, designing scalable architectures, and delivering high-performance services in a microservices environment on Kubernetes, with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for observability.

We value deep knowledge of Kafka, JVM internals, and cloud platforms (Azure/GCP), enabling reliable data pipelines and real-time insights for enterprise clients in Retail, Banking, and more.