Kunai is seeking a skilled Scala Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you'll be instrumental in building high-quality products that delight our clients and thrive in production environments. You'll work across the stack, deepen your technical expertise, and embrace new challenges in a dynamic, collaborative setting.
What You'll Do:- Design and develop scalable, immutable, and distributed systems with a focus on data streaming and backend services using functional Scala.
- Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to build and deliver robust, cloud-based solutions, leveraging AWS infrastructure and modern development practices.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code, contributing to an engineering culture that values quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Take initiative in solving complex problems and push boundaries with a hands-on, can-do attitude.
What We're Looking For:- 5+ years of professional experience in software application development.
- 3+ yrs of experience with GCP and AWS, cloud migration background a plus.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with functional programming (e.g., Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Common Lisp).
- 2+ years of experience working with DynamoDB, PostgresDB.
Bonus Points For:- Familiarity with the ZIO framework, Finagle libraries.
- Prior experience in fintech or banking environments.
- 4+ years working with open-source web technologies.
- 2+ years of experience in performance tuning and monitoring.
- 1+ years working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
- Hands-on experience optimizing high-scale server systems.
- AWS Developer or Architect Certification.
Minimum Degree Required:- Bachelor's Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
