Designation: Scala Tech Champion / Principal Back-End Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 10 to 18 Years

We are seeking an accomplished Scala Tech Champion with 10+ years of software engineering experience to provide technical leadership within a cross-functional product team responsible for a customer-facing platform.
In this role, you will lead the design and evolution of scalable, highly available back-end services in a cloud-native, event-driven environment. You will act as a recognized authority on Scala engineering, distributed systems, and software architecture—setting technical direction, establishing engineering standards, mentoring colleagues, and solving complex challenges across teams.
The position requires solid autonomy, deep architectural expertise, pragmatic decision-making, and close collaboration with Product, Front-End, Platform, and SRE teams.
What will you do?
• Define and champion the technical vision for Scala-based back-end services and platforms.
• Architect, develop, and evolve scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.




• Establish and promote Scala engineering standards, patterns, and development best practices.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and high-performance code, primarily using Scala.
• Lead architectural decisions involving microservices, event-driven systems, data consistency, and service integration.
• Guide the application of functional programming principles using technologies such as Cats and Cats Effect.
• Drive the effective use of Pekko/Akka, Kafka, Event Sourcing, CQRS, and Domain-Driven Design.
• Identify and address architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, scalability constraints, and technical debt.
• Collaborate with Product and other engineering disciplines to translate business needs into pragmatic, user-centric technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers through technical coaching, pair programming, design discussions, and constructive code reviews.
• Facilitate architecture revie

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