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Senior Scala Engineer

Maxonic, Inc.Sunnyvale, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Aug 27, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career as a Senior Scala Engineer at Maxonic, Inc., where you'll design and build robust backend services and distributed systems for a direct client. This on-site role in Sunnyvale, CA, is ideal for experienced Scala developers with strong JVM, API, Spark, and Kafka skills who thrive in collaborative environments. Apply now to contribute to innovative technology solutions.

Quick Overview

Salary
$65/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Posted
3 weeks ago
DockerMicroservicesSQLScalaAWSFlinkApacheApache SparkAzureGitGoogle CloudJavaKafkaKubernetesREST

Job Description

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Senior Scala Engineer

 

Job Title: Senior Scala Engineer

Job Type: Contract 

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Work Schedule: Onsite

Pay Rate: $65 on W2 & Open for c2c

We are looking for a Senior Scala Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable software applications and data-processing systems. The ideal candidate has strong programming fundamentals and experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Scala.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain applications using Scala.
  • Build scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed applications.
  • Work with databases, messaging systems, and cloud platforms.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and production issues.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, architects, DevOps, data engineers, and product teams.
  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design decisions.
  • Develop automated unit, integration, and performance tests.
  • Monitor and improve application performance and reliability.
  • Follow software engineering best practices for security, CI/CD, and version control.

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years as a software engineer in Scala
  • Strong functional programming concepts.
  • Experience with JVM technologies and Java.
  • Strong in REST APIs and microservices
  • Strong in Apache Spark
  • Strong in Kafka
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with SQL and relational or NoSQL databases
  • Familiarity with Akka, Cats, ZIO, Play Framework, or similar Scala technologies.
  • Familiarity with Git and CI/CD tools.
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Required:

  • Very strong and proven experience in building platforms in Streaming and Messaging

  • troubleshooting and solving problems.
  • Changing the way technology works together to optimize the solution/ process
  • very strong in Linux programming and distributed systems
  • very strong in a few of the following technologies -

    • Apache Spark 

    • Apache Flink

    • Apache Kafka

    • Rabbit MQ

  • Language : Scala

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?                    

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Pramod Kumar (/) for more details.

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