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EG-5023 Senior Recently added

Scala Backend Developer

Germany
6 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Decomposed a high-traffic monolith into five standalone services using purely functional Scala, improving deployment frequency while maintaining resilience and test coverage. Delivers backend systems through production operations, including releases, on-call ownership, and postmortem-driven reliability work.

  • Reduced incident recovery time from 1.4 hours to 15 minutes
  • HTTP APIs built with http4s, Tapir, Circe, and protobuf
  • Database access using doobie across PostgreSQL and Cassandra
  • Kafka-based event-driven integrations with Redis caching
ScalaFunctional ProgrammingCatsCats EffectFuturehttp4s
Interviewing now $60k-72k/yr
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SD-4049 Principal Recently added

Software Engineer

Germany
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in building high-performance systems using Rust and Go for cloud-native applications. Developed low-latency network services with C and Python for real-time data processing. Optimized JVM-based applications in Scala for maximum throughput.

  • Implemented concurrency models to enhance system parallelism
  • Led adoption of Rust for memory-safe system programming
  • Architected distributed systems for large-scale data analytics
LinuxNixOSFedoraDebianRustC
Available in 1 month €80k-120k/yr
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Scala Backend Engineer

Germany
6 years
Hybrid
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
ScalaAkka HTTPKafkaPostgreSQLAWSDockerRedisgRPC
Hired Salary: $XXX,XXX
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WM-9123 Principal

Backend/Data Engineering Consultant

Germany
14 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in building real-time data pipelines using Kafka and Scala for analytics platforms. Implemented Kubernetes orchestration to streamline deployment of microservices for backend systems.

  • Built real-time data pipelines with Kafka
  • Implemented Kubernetes orchestration
  • Streamlined microservices deployment
KotlinKubernetesKafkaDBTAlloyDBScala
Interviewing now €90k-110k/yr
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AQ-6124 Lead

Product Engineer

Germany
18 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Led development of cross-platform applications, leveraging Scala and Java for backend services. Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to modern microservices architectures.

  • Integrated Node.js services with existing Java infrastructures
  • Automated deployment pipelines using TypeScript and Python
  • Enhanced scalability with Kotlin-based microservices
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Available in 1 month Salary on request
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LJ-6969 Principal

Senior Software Engineer & Solution Architect

Germany
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected distributed systems for real-time financial data processing, achieving sub-millisecond latency. Designed scalable microservices architecture for cloud-native applications, integrating Rust and Scala for high-performance computing. Spearheaded development of a domain-specific language for automated financial reporting, leveraging F# for functional programming paradigms.

  • Implemented event-driven architecture for IoT data ingestion.
  • Optimized .NET Core applications for cloud environments.
  • Developed consensus algorithms for blockchain-based systems.
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€100k-120k/yr
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NU-3141 Principal

Staff Data Engineer

Germany
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Architected large-scale data pipelines using Apache Spark and Scala, optimizing for real-time analytics in the e-commerce domain. Spearheaded the migration of data infrastructure to Databricks, enhancing processing speed and reliability. Developed a custom data validation framework in Python, ensuring data integrity across distributed systems.

  • Implemented Rust-based data transformation tools for performance gains
  • Designed SQL-based ETL workflows for complex data models
  • Automated data quality checks using custom-built Python scripts
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