Scala Backend Engineer — FP, Akka/Play, Spark

ASTEK SINGAPORE INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Singapore seeks a skilled developer to design and maintain high-performance backend services using Scala. The role includes optimizing reactive systems, integrating APIs, and working with Apache Spark. Candidates should have strong Scala programming skills and experience with distributed architectures. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for collaboration across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Scala and Gradle.
• Implement and optimize concurrent, distributed, and reactive systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable functional Scala code following FP principles.
• Integrate with internal/external APIs and manage asynchronous data flows.
• Work on Scala Views and template rendering for web applications.
• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines using Apache Spark and Scala.
• Apply functional programming principles for clean and efficient code.
• Build reactive and distributed applications using Akka or Play Framework.
• Optimize Spark jobs for performance in large data environments.
• Collaborate with data engineers and product teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Integrate with data lakes, streaming platforms, and cloud services.

Skills

Scala

Apache Spark

Akka

SQL

NoSQL databases

CI/CD

Git

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

A leading technology firm in Singapore seeks a skilled developer to design and maintain high-performance backend services using Scala. The role includes optimizing reactive systems, integrating APIs, and working with Apache Spark. Candidates should have strong Scala programming skills and experience with distributed architectures. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for collaboration across engineering and product teams.