Top Remote Scala Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and operate traffic infrastructure, lead multi-team projects, ensure service reliability, and mentor engineers while utilizing AI tools for development efficiency.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

The Senior Quality Engineer will enhance the automation framework, improve automated coverage, drive quality in compliance-critical software, and establish testing pipelines while collaborating with multiple teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

The Senior Backend Engineer will develop the Payroll product, overseeing the entire development cycle from design to deployment, in a microservices architecture.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable cloud-native microservices and web applications. Own features from design through production, improve observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure, mentor teammates, collaborate across teams, and leverage AI developer tools to automate and accelerate engineering workflows.

Volunteer senior developer to design, build, and maintain a cross-platform medical scheduling app (web, iOS, Android). Participate across the full development lifecycle: design, coding, testing, CI, deployments, code reviews, production support, incident management, and platform architecture. Attend weekly standups and commit at least four hours per week.

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.

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.

Lead and execute end-to-end manual and automated testing in an Agile environment for CMS FFE. Plan, build, and run test scripts (security, API, regression, performance), log and track defects in JIRA, participate in scrum ceremonies, produce test reports, and support continuous improvement and test automation.

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 and build scalable, secure backend services and platform shared services using C# or TypeScript. Own architecture, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), AWS infrastructure, databases (Postgres/NoSQL), CI/CD and IaC, security, performance, and third-party API integrations. Mentor engineers, drive platform vision, reduce technical debt, and deliver high-impact, reliable distributed systems.

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, 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 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, 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.

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.

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.

Build and maintain full-stack features on a product-oriented team, owning product areas end-to-end. Ship customer-facing functionality, design and optimize data models and schemas, work with React state management, relational databases, cloud services, event streaming, caching, and AI tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, take high ownership, and occasionally support mission-critical work outside normal hours.