Scala Developer

Title:  Distributed Systems Software Engineer (Functional Programming), Mid - Senior levels
Location:  100% Remote, flexible on time zone
Type:  Direct hire
Start:  ASAP
Salary:  130 - 175K

Job Description:  We are seeking someone with experience building and maintaining highly performant distributed systems. You will have experience with functional programming and object-oriented design and development. As a fast-growing team it is important that you can successfully collaborate with developers, architects, and product managers, ideally in an early-stage company environment. We're looking for engineers who are suspicious of easy answers and who can't walk past something broken without wanting to fix it.

Requirements

• 4+ years of work experience with Distributed Systems
• 3+ years of work experience with Functional Programming
• Highly skilled in Scala, or another functional language, such as Haskel (need to have type-level functional programming experience from somewhere so candidate can readily navigate and improve upon our codebase).
• Experience building/designing robust protocols for distributed systems. Not just off-shelf assembly distributed system experience - must have built and know what's under the hood.
• Continue to enhance product.  Consistently touching distributed protocol.
• Familiarity with Akka/Pekko or the Actor-model
• Exposure to designing, implementing, and maintaining complex data infrastructures
• Hands-on experience building/designing and developing scalable, high performing and fault-tolerant applications
• Understanding of concurrency in the JVM
• Graph databases and graph algorithms - Nice to have
• Experience using Kafka  - Nice to have
• Experience using Cassandra or ScyllaDB (esp. in large clusters)  - Nice to have