Senior Scala Engineer (Distributed Systems | Akka)

Scalac is an IT company with 11 to 50 employees, founded in 2014. The role involves building a high-performance distributed platform focused on scalability, ultra-low latency, and in-memory state management.

• Strong commercial experience with Scala
• Excellent knowledge of Akka Actors
• Good understanding of Akka Cluster and Cluster Sharding
• Experience designing distributed systems
• Experience writing performance and benchmark tests
• Strong understanding of concurrency and asynchronous programming
• Ability to design highly optimized, low-latency solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to have:

• Apache Pekko
• Kafka
• JVM performance tuning
• Networking or distributed messaging systems

• Designing custom horizontal scaling and sharding solutions
• Building distributed communication mechanisms between clusters
• Developing multi-datacenter replication and synchronization
• Creating high-performance infrastructure where every millisecond matters
• Writing performance benchmarks and continuously optimizing system efficiency