Senior Scala Backend Engineer — Hybrid

Maxonic Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxonic is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer for a contract role in Sunnyvale, CA. Hybrid work arrangement. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and data-processing systems using Scala.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, strong functional programming, JVM experience, and expertise with Kafka, REST APIs, and cloud platforms. Collaboration across teams and best-practice adherence are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a software engineer with Scala.
• Strong functional programming concepts and JVM experience.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, Kafka, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Scala applications.
• Build scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed apps.
• Work with databases, messaging systems, and cloud platforms.
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in reviews.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, DevOps, data teams.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

REST APIs

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Java JVM

SQL

NoSQL

AWS/Azure/GCP

Tools

Akka

Cats

ZIO

Play Framework

Git

Job description

Maxonic is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer for a contract role in Sunnyvale, CA. Hybrid work arrangement. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and data-processing systems using Scala.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, strong functional programming, JVM experience, and expertise with Kafka, REST APIs, and cloud platforms. Collaboration across teams and best-practice adherence are essential.