Remote Scala Tech Lead - Architect, Mentor & Scale Expert

GR8 Tech group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual benefits budget

Maternity/paternity leave

Childcare allowance

Vacation days

Remote-first culture

Tech support

Coworking compensation

Team events

Learning culture

Job summary

GR8 Tech group in the United States is seeking a Senior/Lead Software Engineer to own high-level system design and architectural decisions for features, services, and platform components. You will mentor engineers, perform technical evaluations, collaborate with team leads, support incident resolution, and drive technical excellence across distributed systems in product or B2B environments.

Strong communication in English required; experience in Scala and Java preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience and prior senior/lead role.
• Proven experience in Scala and Java.
• Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems in product-based or B2B environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking with best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and technical communication.
• Upper-Intermediate (B2+) English and Ukrainian or Russian.

Responsibilities

• Own high-level system design and architecture decisions for features, services, and platform components.
• Perform technical evaluation of tasks, initiatives, and projects.
• Collaborate with Team Leads on technical roadmap alignment.
• Support incident resolution and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Contribute as an Individual Contributor (IC) to critical or complex parts of the system.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure alignment with company-wide engineering standards.
• Ensure code quality, reusability, scalability, and extensibility.
• Provide high-level effort estimations and support planning activities.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to their professional development.
• Assist Team Leads in defining and executing Personal Development Plans (PDPs).
• Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and engineering culture improvements.

Skills

7+ years experience

Scala

Java

System design

Problem solving

Technical communication

English (B2+)

Ukrainian/Russian

Education

CS/Software Engineering degree

Job description

GR8 Tech group in the United States is seeking a Senior/Lead Software Engineer to own high-level system design and architectural decisions for features, services, and platform components. You will mentor engineers, perform technical evaluations, collaborate with team leads, support incident resolution, and drive technical excellence across distributed systems in product or B2B environments.

Strong communication in English required; experience in Scala and Java preferred.