Senior Scala Backend Engineer: Akka & Kubernetes | Remote

Bln24, Llc.; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work opportunities

Medical, dental, vision plans

Job summary

BLN24 is seeking a Senior Back End Web Developer in a role focused on building and optimizing back-end services using Scala, Akka, and CQRS with an event-driven approach. You will design APIs handling complex JSON payloads and deploy containerized microservices on Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong ORM and database skills (PostgreSQL/Cassandra), and a track record in Agile teams with GitHub.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional back-end development experience.
• Experience with Scala, Akka Toolkit, reactive programming, and actor-based concurrency.
• Experience with CQRS and event-driven architecture.
• Experience optimizing queries in PostgreSQL and Cassandra / AWS Keyspaces.
• Experience with Slick or comparable ORM.
• Experience building APIs with complex JSON payloads.
• Experience unit and integration testing end-to-end APIs.
• Experience containerized microservices with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using GitHub for source code management in Agile teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain back-end services using Scala and the Akka Toolkit, applying functional programming, reactive programming, and actor-based concurrency.
• Build and evolve components of a CQRS, event-driven architecture.
• Develop and optimize database queries across relational and non-relational stores, including PostgreSQL and Cassandra / AWS Keyspaces.
• Implement data access layers using Slick or comparable ORM libraries.
• Build and optimize APIs that handle complex JSON payloads.
• Write unit and integration tests that validate end-to-end API responses.
• Develop containerized microservices for Docker and deploy them on Kubernetes.
• Manage source code, reviews, and planning in GitHub, collaborating with architects, front-end developers, and product owners in an Agile team

Skills

Scala

Akka Toolkit

Functional programming

Reactive programming

Actor-based concurrency

CQRS

API development

JSON payloads

Unit testing

Integration testing

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Slick ORM

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

AWS Keyspaces

Job description

BLN24 is seeking a Senior Back End Web Developer in a role focused on building and optimizing back-end services using Scala, Akka, and CQRS with an event-driven approach. You will design APIs handling complex JSON payloads and deploy containerized microservices on Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong ORM and database skills (PostgreSQL/Cassandra), and a track record in Agile teams with GitHub.