Senior Backend Engineer (Scala) - Remote Data-Heavy APIs

HeadsUp AI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadsUp AI seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer (Scala) to join a remote-first team with members across North America, Europe, and APAC. You will help build the next-generation sales tool for product-led growth, focusing on scalable, secure back-end services and intuitive APIs.

Expect to ingest millions of events daily, process them into insights, and influence the roadmap by working closely with the founders. Strong experience with Scala, SQL, and data tooling is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience building data-heavy back-end systems with Scala (Zio).
• Proficiency in at least one SQL language (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, Oracle).
• Ability to design scalable, durable APIs and systems.
• Prefer experience with data engineering tools and data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable back-end services and APIs.
• Build reliable ingestion of millions of events daily and derive insights.
• Collaborate with founders to shape roadmap and product direction.
• Help optimize security, latency, and data partitioning.

Skills

Scala (Zio)

APIs design

Distributed systems

Security

Event processing

Tools

Beam/Scio

Airflow

BigQuery

SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLServer/Oracle)

Job description

HeadsUp AI seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer (Scala) to join a remote-first team with members across North America, Europe, and APAC. You will help build the next-generation sales tool for product-led growth, focusing on scalable, secure back-end services and intuitive APIs.

Expect to ingest millions of events daily, process them into insights, and influence the roadmap by working closely with the founders. Strong experience with Scala, SQL, and data tooling is highly valued.