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EL-6905 Lead Recently added

Lead Backend Engineer

Portugal
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a seller shipment-management system that migrated more than 1,000 marketplace sellers onto a commerce platform. Owns Scala services built with Lagom and Akka, from initial architecture through Kubernetes production stabilization on AWS.

  • Go-based logistics services for order fulfillment
  • GCP deployments using Google Kubernetes Engine
  • High-availability APIs for marketplace operations
  • Event-driven backend architecture
ScalaAkkaLagomGoPythonElixir
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WK-9239 Principal Recently added

Senior Kotlin backend developer

Sweden
25 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented large-scale microservices architectures using Scala for financial transaction systems, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Developed real-time data processing pipelines for a cloud-based analytics platform, optimizing for low latency and high throughput. Contributed to the development of reactive systems, enhancing system responsiveness and scalability in distributed environments.

  • Led migration of legacy Java systems to Kotlin microservices
  • Implemented event-driven architecture for a retail analytics platform
  • Optimized cloud resource allocation, reducing operational costs by 30%
  • Developed secure API gateways for fintech applications
JavaScalaKotlinMicroservicesReactive architectureCloud
Available in 1 month €100k-140k/yr
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Scala Backend Engineer

Switzerland
7 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
ScalaZIOgRPCRedisKubernetesTerraformPostgreSQLDocker
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EX-8429 Senior

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Cyprus
6 years
Remote
Freelancer

Architected cloud-native applications on GCP, leveraging Kubernetes for efficient container orchestration and scaling. Designed and deployed a multi-tenant logging system using Elasticsearch, enhancing query performance and storage efficiency. Automated CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, reducing deployment times and improving reliability across distributed systems.

  • Configured Grafana for real-time monitoring of cloud infrastructure.
  • Enhanced security protocols for distributed systems in cloud environments.
  • Developed custom Scala libraries for data processing and transformation.
ScalaJavaZIOCats EffectAkkaAkka Cluster
Available in 1 month €45-68/hr
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EG-5023 Senior

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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NN-2502 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed scalable microservices for real-time financial transaction processing, leveraging event-driven architecture to ensure low-latency data handling. Designed and implemented distributed systems for high-availability cloud environments, focusing on fault tolerance and resilience.

  • Architected RESTful APIs for cross-platform data integration
  • Optimized distributed system performance for 100,000+ concurrent users
  • Implemented message-driven microservices using Kafka and Akka
  • Designed scalable data pipelines for real-time analytics
Distributed systemsMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureSystem designAPI designScala
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KW-3297 Principal

Senior Backend Engineer

United States
22 years
Remote
Freelancer

Designed and implemented a distributed ledger system for financial transactions, optimizing consensus protocols for latency and throughput. Spearheaded the development of a real-time event processing pipeline, handling billions of messages per day with sub-second latency. Architected a microservices platform for a large-scale e-commerce application, focusing on scalability and fault tolerance.

  • Developed a custom RPC framework in Rust for microservices
  • Optimized JVM performance for high-frequency trading applications
  • Implemented a distributed caching system, reducing data retrieval time by 70%
  • Led migration of monolithic architecture to microservices, improving deployment speed
RustJavaScalaApache KafkagRPCTIBCO
Interviewing now $150-150/hr
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ZK-8186 Principal

CTO, CO-FOUNDER

Finland
25 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Architected a large-scale multiplayer game engine supporting millions of concurrent users, leveraging deep expertise in Linux kernel optimizations and C++. Pioneered the development of a cloud-native platform, enhancing scalability and reliability for distributed systems. Spearheaded the integration of Rust in performance-critical components, reducing latency and increasing throughput.

  • Designed real-time physics engine for AAA games
  • Implemented secure, low-latency networking protocols
  • Optimized cloud cost with efficient resource allocation
Linux kernelgame developmentcloud infrastructureproduct managementRustC++
Interviewing now €90k-120k/yr
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SQ-8952 Lead

Vice President

United Kingdom
21 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built and maintained an electronic repo trading system in Scala using a proprietary trading framework, including integrations with an additional trading platform and regional desk. Improved trade-change detection, production performance, and operational reliability through targeted tuning, defect remediation, and automated unit testing.

  • Developed backend model-engineering services with cats-effect and http4s
  • Integrated Oracle Advanced Queuing and Tanzu GemFire
  • Built data platforms using Apache Flink, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
  • Researched verified monadic programming and formal software methods
ScalaJavaJavaScriptHaskellBashC
Interviewing now £80k-140k/yr
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HE-9619 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Netherlands
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds distributed backend systems for payments and high-volume event streaming, including Kafka and ClickHouse pipelines processing billions of records. Has led product delivery, data-platform migrations, and engineering standards across production services.

  • Personalized recommendation and ad-tech services for multi-device video playback
  • Event-sourced CQRS services with gRPC and Protobuf contracts
  • Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger observability across Kubernetes workloads
  • Rust components for performance-sensitive backend processing
Scala 2Scala 3JavaRustKotlinTypeScript
Available in 2 months €90k-95k/yr
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ES-7679 Mid-level

Backend Engineer

United States
4 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed distributed data processing systems leveraging Scala and Java, optimizing performance for real-time financial analytics. Integrated complex SQL queries into backend services to support dynamic reporting features in a high-traffic e-commerce platform. Implemented RESTful APIs using TypeScript to enhance interoperability across microservices.

  • Optimized database interactions for a 1TB daily transaction system.
  • Built event-driven architecture using Kafka for asynchronous processing.
  • Automated deployment pipelines with Bash for continuous integration.
  • Enhanced frontend-backend communication with WebSocket protocols.
ScalaJavaSQLTypeScriptJavaScriptBash
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JJ-2880 Senior

Senior Backend Engineer

Portugal
7 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed backend systems with Rust and Go for high-performance computing. Expert in implementing cross-platform solutions with C++ and Python.

  • Built high-performance systems with Rust
  • Developed cross-platform solutions
  • Optimized C++ and Python applications
RustScalaGoJavaPythonC++
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SS-9069 Senior

Software Engineer, Backend

Singapore
6 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered backend systems using Scala with a focus on functional programming. Built fault-tolerant services with ZIO for distributed systems. Developed GraphQL APIs using Caliban for seamless client-server interactions.

  • Utilized Cats library for functional programming patterns
  • Optimized SQL queries for high-volume transaction systems
  • Developed Python utilities for backend service monitoring
ScalaSQLPythonZIOCatsCaliban
Interviewing now $100k-120k/yr
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AU-3091 Lead

Independent Software Engineering Contractor

Slovakia
12 years
Remote
Freelancer

Built backend platforms for experimentation and feature-flag management, including real-time audience targeting, eligibility decisioning, and production APIs. Operated the surrounding AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform, deployment automation, and observability tooling.

  • Apache Spark data-processing pipelines
  • GraphQL API design with Smithy models
  • Kafka event-streaming integrations
  • PostgreSQL and DynamoDB persistence
JavaScalaTypeScriptAngularGraphQLApache Spark
Interviewing now $113-150/hr
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WS-6692 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

Canada
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds high-throughput, low-latency distributed services for real-time bond trading, firehose-scale ingestion, regulated payments, and commerce. Has modernized legacy Java and Kotlin platforms into functional Scala microservices while operating Kafka- and Kinesis-driven systems on Kubernetes across AWS and GCP.

  • Akka/Pekko Cluster and Persistence
  • Back-pressure tuning in streaming pipelines
  • Zero-downtime Akka-to-Pekko migration
  • PostgreSQL production systems
ScalaCats-EffectFS2ZIOMonixJava
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