Top Senior Scala Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, and operate distributed, data-intensive backend systems and pipelines. Own production data infrastructure (streaming, batch, analytical stores), debug production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, partner with product and frontend teams, write/review architecture and code, and improve observability, reliability, and deployment practices.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement scalable data systems, collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure data integrity.

Lead design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency programmatic bidding systems. Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy real-time inference, optimize distributed microservices, run experiments and quantitative analysis, and partner with product to ship scalable features. Foster operational excellence, mentor engineers, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Build and operate low-latency, highly available distributed data systems and services to deliver high-quality data products that power ML models and product experiences. Partner with data scientists and product teams, design scalable multi-tenant systems, ensure observability and operational reliability, and enable self-service data access.

Build and maintain NMI's bank-to-bank payment systems: public APIs, internal tools, and third-party integrations. Design and develop services in Scala, TypeScript, and C#, apply TDD, own production quality and incidents, work with AWS containerized microservices, messaging, data stores, and CI/CD. Use AI-first tools to accelerate development, participate in agile processes, refactor large codebases, and collaborate with product and SRE to deliver resilient payment features.

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.

The role involves designing, building, and optimizing a data platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data quality and security.

Lead design and implementation of health data products, mentor engineers, own multiple projects, and develop scalable data solutions using modern technologies.

Lead design and implementation of products, mentor engineers, drive innovation, and build scalable data solutions using modern tech stack.

Design and deliver scalable, secure data platforms and architectures (Databricks/cloud) for customers. Split time between billable and pre-sales, lead solution design, mentor teams, ensure data governance and security, validate ETL/data pipelines, produce documentation and presentations, and manage multiple customer accounts to deliver production-ready data solutions.

Lead refactoring and optimization of scalable data pipelines, design next-generation distributed storage and processing systems, build clean interfaces for diverse data consumers, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards and processes.

Build and ship complex consumer-facing full stack applications. Work on React/TypeScript frontends (offline PWAs using IndexedDB/DexieJS and Workbox) and Scala/Play backends with PostgreSQL. Deploy on AWS via Kubernetes. Mentor engineers, collaborate in product-focused cycles, and thrive in a fast-moving startup environment.

Lead platform strategy, architecture, and hands-on development. Design, build, deploy, and operate high-performance, fault-tolerant integrations and platform enhancements. Drive security/compliance, mentor engineers, recruit senior talent, align technology with business goals, and communicate technical vision to stakeholders.

Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

Design, develop, optimize, and deploy high-performance Spark/Scala data processing applications and ETL pipelines within the Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts, ensure data integrity and performance, troubleshoot Spark/Cloudera issues, and implement version control and CI/CD for Spark applications.

Design, develop, optimize, test, and deploy large-scale Spark/Scala data processing and ETL pipelines within the Cloudera ecosystem. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts, ensure data integrity and security, troubleshoot performance issues, and implement version control and CI/CD for production data solutions.

Design, develop, optimize, and deploy large-scale data processing applications using Scala and Apache Spark within the Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem. Build ETL pipelines, ensure data integrity and performance, troubleshoot Spark/Cloudera issues, collaborate with data scientists and analysts, and implement version control and CI/CD for Spark applications.

Design, develop, optimize, and deploy high-performance data processing applications using Scala and Apache Spark on Cloudera CDH. Build and tune ETL pipelines integrating HDFS, Hive, Impala, HBase, and Kafka. Ensure data integrity and security, troubleshoot performance, collaborate with data scientists and analysts, and implement version control and CI/CD.

Design, develop, test, optimize, and deploy large-scale Spark/Scala data processing and ETL pipelines on Cloudera Hadoop. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts, ensure data integrity and security, troubleshoot performance, and implement version control and CI/CD for Spark applications.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems using Scala, Java, and the Akka ecosystem; build RESTful APIs and cloud-native solutions on AWS; design data access with Slick/SQL; maintain CI/CD pipelines; participate in architecture, code reviews, troubleshooting, and performance improvements.

Design and implement automated test frameworks and data validation utilities for enterprise data platforms. Validate data transformations, pipelines, lineage, and performance across Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Hadoop and cloud environments. Integrate tests into CI/CD, perform white-box and performance testing, investigate production defects, and collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure P&C insurance data quality and regulatory readiness.

Own and set technical direction for the Everand backend, building scalable, reliable systems for discoverability, personalization, and core consumption journeys. Drive architecture, platform health (CI/CD, staging, DBs, queues, cost, observability), mentor engineers, lead cross-team planning, modernize legacy systems, and partner with product, design, analytics, web/mobile, and ML to support experimentation and telemetry-driven decisions.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion agents for fleet robotics. Define efficient data formats/protocols, implement observability and big-data processing (Spark/Kafka), and build cloud tools (S3, Athena, SageMaker) for analytics, IoT integration, and long-horizon forecasting to improve robot performance and operational insights.

As a Founding Engineer, you'll develop disruptive observability products, optimize software stacks, engage with customers, and contribute to company culture.