Senior Full Stack Scala Engineer

emagine; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

emagine Group is seeking a Senior Full Stack Scala Engineer to join a Platform & Infrastructure team. The role focuses on migrating services to a high-performance Scala framework, improving scalability and resilience, and shaping a strategic technology transformation.

You will design and implement backend services in Scala, migrate Go/TypeScript/Python services, build REST and gRPC APIs, and contribute to DevOps with Terraform, CI/CD, and AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Scala.
• Solid understanding of functional programming and concurrent systems.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in at least one additional language such as Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Scala.
• Support the migration of existing services into a modern Scala ecosystem.
• Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs, distributed services, and event-driven architectures.
• Work across the stack when required, contributing to both backend and frontend development.
• Design and implement communication patterns between services using Kafka and Redis.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

Distributed systems

Full-stack development

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Kafka

Security best practices

AI-assisted tools

English communication

Tools

AKKA

Pekko

Grafana

Prometheus

Play Framework

Job description

Location: Remote (Candidates must be based in Portugal)

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Scala Engineer to join a Platform & Infrastructure team responsible for the modernization and evolution of a large-scale digital platform.

This role will be instrumental in the migration of existing services to a high-performance Scala-based framework, helping to improve scalability, resilience, and overall platform performance. You'll work on challenging distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern engineering practices while contributing to a strategic technology transformation initiative.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Scala.
• Support the migration of existing services developed in Go, TypeScript, and Python into a modern Scala ecosystem.
• Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs, distributed services, and event-driven architectures.
• Work across the stack when required, contributing to both backend and frontend development.
• Design and implement communication patterns between services using technologies such as Kafka and Redis.
• Manage infrastructure through Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployment practices.
• Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, analyse logs, and improve service reliability.
• Implement security best practices around authentication, authorisation, and sensitive operations.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical decision-making, and code reviews.
• Document solutions, share knowledge, and contribute to engineering best practices across the team.
• Help improve platform scalability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Scala.
• Solid understanding of functional programming and concurrent systems.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in at least one additional language such as Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Python.
• Full-stack development experience, including backend services, frontend applications, and database design.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database concepts.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience working with event-driven systems and asynchronous messaging technologies such as Kafka.
• Good understanding of security principles in software development and operations.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Personal Skills:

• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Pragmatic approach to software design and delivery.
• Ability to work autonomously in a remote environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Passion for continuous improvement, learning, and technical excellence.

Nice to Have:

Experience with:

• Akka, Pekko, Cats Effect, ZIO, or Play Framework.
• Large-scale platform migrations and modernization projects.
• FinTech, payments, gaming, betting, or other high-transaction environments.
• Keycloak and OpenID Connect.
• Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
• Load and performance testing.
• Designing highly resilient and fault-tolerant systems.

Why Join?

• Fully remote role with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Portugal.
• Opportunity to contribute to a major platform transformation initiative.
• Work with modern technologies including Scala, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.
• Join a highly skilled team focused on engineering excellence and innovation.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions in a large-scale environment.
• Take ownership of services throughout their full lifecycle, from design and development to production and continuous improvement.