Senior Scala & Go Engineer | Cloud, Kafka & AI Systems

Poland and Middle-Eastern Europe; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xebia is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement scalable solutions in Scala and Go within a distributed environment. You will work with event-driven architectures using Kafka and deploy on AWS (S3 and EKS), contributing to the full SDLC and collaborating with stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong knowledge of Scala/functional programming, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems, plus hands-on AWS/Kafka experience and English communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Scala and functional programming; Go experience a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and high-throughput production environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly S3 and EKS.
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven/asynchronous architectures.
• Experience with the Lightbend ecosystem, particularly Akka.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Jenkins, and New Relic.
• Good understanding of SDLC, including CI/CD and testing approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable software solutions using Scala and Go in a distributed environment.
• Work with event-driven and asynchronous architectures using Kafka.
• Build and support high-throughput systems in production.
• Work with AWS services (S3, EKS) across cloud, container, database, and storage environments.
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle including CI/CD and testing.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and collaborate with stakeholders.

Skills

Scala

Go

Functional programming

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Kafka

Akka

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

New Relic

English communication

Tools

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

New Relic

Job description

Xebia is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement scalable solutions in Scala and Go within a distributed environment. You will work with event-driven architectures using Kafka and deploy on AWS (S3 and EKS), contributing to the full SDLC and collaborating with stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong knowledge of Scala/functional programming, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems, plus hands-on AWS/Kafka experience and English communication skills.