Top Senior Scala Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Leads and grows software development teams building next-generation data products. Responsibilities include recruiting, training, career development, mentoring engineers, improving development processes, promoting software quality, and evaluating technologies for scalability. The role requires leadership in Agile/Scrum environments, strong software engineering expertise, and experience with automation, testing, modern architectures, and potentially large-scale data engineering.

Develop and deploy software solutions for Workday’s enterprise search platform, contributing to search relevance, data normalization, recommendation systems, and machine-learning-based predictive applications. The role requires Java or Scala development, API development, testing, object-oriented design, source control, technical documentation, and collaboration within an agile engineering team. Work supports U.S. Federal Government contracts and requires U.S. citizenship. The position is based in Atlanta with at least 50% quarterly office or field presence.

Design, build, and operate scalable, high-throughput backend services and distributed systems. Responsibilities include architecting core platforms, improving reliability and performance, working with message systems and relational and NoSQL databases, and leveraging cloud infrastructure. The role may also involve leading cross-team technical initiatives and using Kubernetes, service meshes, and chaos engineering practices.

Build and maintain backend storefront services powering BigCommerce, extend GraphQL APIs, support AI-driven shopping capabilities, resolve production issues, improve performance and reliability, review code, and collaborate on technical designs. The role requires production backend experience, API and service communication knowledge, observability and deployment practices, automated testing, and responsible use of AI coding assistants.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications, distributed services, data platforms, APIs, and AI-powered experiences. Develop frontend and backend solutions, data pipelines, analytics frameworks, and intelligent workflows using Azure and modern engineering practices. Own technical designs, modernization, observability, security, compliance, incident response, and operational reliability. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and contribute to architecture, code reviews, automation, and continuous improvement.

Lead architecture, development, and technical strategy for scalable cloud-native applications, distributed services, APIs, data platforms, workflows, and AI-powered capabilities. Drive modernization, reliability, security, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence across teams. Translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and develop intelligent experiences using generative AI, RAG, agents, and automation.

Design and operate high-volume batch and streaming pipelines for cloud usage metering and billing. Build rating logic, data lakehouse systems, Airflow workflows, and production Python and Spark or Flink jobs. Develop reconciliation and data-quality checks with auditable billing trails, while contributing tested code, code reviews, and engineering standards. The role requires deep SQL, cloud, and large-scale data engineering experience.

Build and architect Alpaca’s algorithmic trading platform, developing high-performance, low-latency brokerage systems. Responsibilities include extensive frontend and backend coding, distributed system design, database and concurrency architecture, high availability, throughput optimization, and object-oriented modeling. The role requires prior experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS and RMS platforms, and involves making critical technical decisions in a demanding early-stage environment.

Build and operate the backend platform for autonomous cybersecurity agents, including durable workflow execution, tool and connector frameworks, safe-change pipelines, tenant isolation, ETL, GraphQL services, observability, audit trails, and distributed systems. Partner with AI researchers and security engineers to productionize agent capabilities across customer environments while enforcing authorization, rollback, quotas, and data protection.

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and support secure, high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, lead code and design reviews, establish automated testing, monitor production systems, and improve quality practices. Collaborate with architects, product partners, customers, and engineers while mentoring team members. Build and maintain AI-enabled components responsibly, applying security, privacy, governance, observability, and compliance standards.

Volunteer Principal Full Stack Engineer to lead and contribute across frontend and backend (React/React Native, Node.js, MongoDB). Own feature development, mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design, ship scalable code, and support CI processes. Must commit 4+ hours weekly and attend a weekly standup; first task includes launching a fundraising campaign.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for secure fintech and crypto products. Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, code reviews, system design, and deployment using Azure. Optimize backend performance and scalability, resolve defects, follow DevOps and CI/CD practices, and build reliable systems supporting payments, transfers, and other financial activity.

Develop and operate IAM services powering Elastic Cloud and on-premises offerings. Responsibilities include backend software development, technical design, production debugging, incident response, customer issue resolution, security and reliability improvements, and on-call participation. The role involves distributed systems, containers, virtualization, microservices, cloud platforms, Kubernetes adoption, and collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Build and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure enabling secure, reliable access to foundation models and AI agents. Responsibilities include developing model gateways, provider integrations, routing, usage controls, observability, governance, and self-service platform capabilities. The role involves architecting distributed systems, improving reliability and security, collaborating across engineering and product teams, mentoring engineers, and establishing high-quality engineering practices.

Design, develop, debug, and improve Elastic’s cloud control-plane offerings. The role involves guiding cross-team architecture, leading development best practices, creating technical plans, diagnosing complex failures, prioritizing fixes and features, and collaborating with Support and Elasticsearch engineering teams. The engineer will contribute to reliable, scalable SaaS foundations while providing pragmatic technical leadership across a distributed engineering organization.

Design, build, and operate backend services supporting external penetration testing, including Python APIs, workflow orchestration, ETL pipelines, AWS data lakes, GraphQL and graph APIs, Kubernetes infrastructure, and observability systems. Own service performance, scalability, uptime, deployment, and production operations while collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams. Contribute to architecture, technical documentation, platform stability, and user-facing launches.

Build and maintain backend services powering food search and logging. Tune Elasticsearch performance across indexing, query evaluation, relevance, cluster management, and monitoring. Develop search-quality metrics and experiments, evaluate data technologies, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. Write production Scala services while working with SQL and Python, large-scale data infrastructure, databases, Kafka, cloud platforms, and AI-powered development tools.

Lead the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of PlayStation’s real-time analytics platform. Build scalable distributed data systems using streaming and OLAP technologies, integrate batch and streaming workloads, improve reliability and performance, and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across teams, mentors engineers, drives architecture and standards, resolves production incidents, and participates in on-call support.

Build and optimize distributed Lance dataset operations, high-performance indices, table formats, and data encodings in Rust. Develop integrations with Spark, Hive Metastore, Presto, Trino, Ray, and other data infrastructure systems. Improve internal data processing infrastructure, contribute to open-source communities, and promote Lance through technical conferences. The role requires deep distributed systems expertise and extensive experience with high-performance databases, big data, or AI training systems.

Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution and platform integrations. Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals, deploy cloud-native services on AWS EKS and Kubernetes, and ensure reliability, observability, and scalability. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions while mentoring junior engineers. The role requires expertise in backend or data engineering, distributed systems, streaming technologies, cloud deployment, data modeling, and high-throughput databases.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Designs large-scale data platforms and distributed systems, develops automated data pipelines, establishes architecture standards, and improves platform scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency. Partners with engineering, product, security, cloud, and architecture teams to modernize workflows and establish governance, security, and observability practices. Leads architecture reviews, resolves technical decisions, mentors technical staff, and communicates strategy and risk to senior leadership.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Build and operate backend APIs, a reusable integration platform, security-tool connectors, MCP capabilities, and event-driven services. Own GraphQL federation, permissions, multi-tenant access, reliability, observability, vendor API resilience, and production operations. Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams while mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical standards.