Senior Scala & Go Engineer for Scalable AI Systems

Xebia Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xebia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement scalable software solutions using Scala and Go in a distributed environment. You will work with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and AWS services like S3 and EKS, contributing to the full software development lifecycle and collaborating with stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong engineering fundamentals, and hands-on use of AI-powered assistants to improve productivity in software delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Scala and functional programming, with Go experience or ability to work across Scala and Go.
• 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 or asynchronous architectures.
• Experience with the Lightbend ecosystem, particularly Akka.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Jenkins, and New Relic.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle, including source control, CI/CD, and testing approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Practical experience using AI-powered assistants to improve productivity in software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing scalable software solutions using Scala and Go in a distributed environment.
• Working with event-driven and asynchronous architectures using Kafka.
• Building and supporting high-throughput systems in production.
• Work with AWS services, including S3 and EKS, across cloud, container, database, and storage environments.
• Contributing to the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD and testing.
• Evaluating technical trade-offs against business requirements and collaborating with stakeholders.

Skills

Scala

Go

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

English communication

AI-powered assistants

Cloud (AWS)

Event-driven architectures

Akka / Lightbend

Tools

Kafka

S3

EKS

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

New Relic

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

Xebia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement scalable software solutions using Scala and Go in a distributed environment. You will work with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and AWS services like S3 and EKS, contributing to the full software development lifecycle and collaborating with stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong engineering fundamentals, and hands-on use of AI-powered assistants to improve productivity in software delivery.