# Scala Engineer for cloud-based industrial services
About
Intellias is a software provider in the automotive industry. It partners with a Fortune 100 industrial manufacturer to modernize and expand cloud-based services and data products used by a global network of dealers, enterprise customers, and internal business units. The teams deliver scalable APIs, event-driven services, and analytics pipelines for heavy equipment quoting, ordering, telemetry, diagnostics, and lifecycle support.
Responsibilities
•Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Scala
•Build reliable event-processing, notification, and integration services
•Develop APIs and distributed system components in highly available environments
•Deliver scalable, fault-tolerant solutions that provide business value
•Contribute to system architecture, technical design, and engineering decisions
•Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis
•Support integration, acceptance, and quality assurance testing
•Maintain software quality through testing, reviews, documentation, and best practices
•Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence within the team
•Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in Agile environments
•Own services throughout their lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and production support
Requirements
•At least 3 years of experience with Scala designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services and distributed systems in production
•At least 8 years of software engineering experience, preferably with Java
•At least 3 years of experience building distributed systems using Akka (Streams, Actors, HTTP, Persistence) or Apache Pekko
•At least 3 years of experience with AWS
•Strong experience designing and operating event-driven distributed systems using Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or equivalent messaging platforms
•Strong experience with functional programming concepts and libraries such as Cats, Cats Effect, or ZIO
•Hands-on experience with Docker
•Strong experience with PostgreSQL and SQL query development
•Experience with CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines
•Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures and stream-processing systems
•Experience with microservice architectures and Agile software development environments
•Strong understanding of software architecture and solution design
•Strong ownership mindset and ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives
Nice to have
Experience with Java 17+/21, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Flyway, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks; experience processing telemetry or event data at scale.
Conditions
6 hours of overlap with US Central Time (CT) on business days, no later than 2 pm CT.
