Top Remote 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.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Socure, you'll develop scalable backend services for identity verification, optimize system performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on document processing integrations.

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

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 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.

Lead customer engagements and pre-sales for Databricks-based data platforms. Architect and deliver end-to-end data engineering solutions supporting BI, ML/AI, and analytics; manage multiple accounts, mentor teams, ensure data quality, governance, and production readiness, and produce technical documentation and presentations.

Performs continuous security, API, UI, and regression testing for CMS Marketplace systems. Develops and maintains automated Java or Scala test frameworks for REST APIs, Gatling simulations, and Scala/Selenium UI and API integration frameworks. Executes functional and manual tests, validates environments and databases, documents defects and test results in JIRA, participates in Agile ceremonies and code reviews, prepares test data, expands regression suites, and reports testing progress across releases.

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 operate Tier-0 Pricing, Catalog, and Offers services powering Netflix commerce for 330M members. Design and implement product-facing features and platform infrastructure, solve distributed systems problems (consistency, race conditions, throughput), partner cross-functionally, and own production reliability including on-call incident response.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Scala/Java server-side applications and RESTful APIs. Work on distributed systems, ensure data integrity and security, write unit tests, optimize performance, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers while supporting CMS mission requirements.

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, build, and maintain scalable Azure data pipelines and platforms using Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, and Microsoft Fabric. Implement IaC (Bicep/ARM/Terraform), CI/CD with Azure DevOps, monitor platform stability, optimize Spark jobs, and collaborate with architects and stakeholders to meet business requirements.

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.

Lead architecture and delivery of scalable, resilient distributed web applications and AI/LLM-powered features. Drive technical vision, enforce engineering best practices, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and platform teams, and productionize generative AI capabilities with attention to testing, observability, security, and performance.

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.