This is a remote position.

Title: Backend Software Developer

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote

Core Technical Requirements

Primary Skills

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Scala (mandatory):

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Minimum
2–3 years of hands-on experience

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Java:

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Strong experience with
Java 17+

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Backend Development:

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Building
web services
and
data pipelines

Frameworks & Technologies

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Akka / Pekko (critical):

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Akka Streams (now Pekko Streams)

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Actors, Cluster, Singleton, Persistence, HTTP

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Functional Programming:

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Experience with
Cats / Cats Effect

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Streaming & Distributed Systems:

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High-concurrency and distributed architecture experience

AWS & Cloud Stack

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Strong experience required with:

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IAM

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Kinesis

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DynamoDB

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SQS / SNS

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API Gateway

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KMS

Additional Technical Skills

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SQL and query optimization

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CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

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DevOps exposure

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High availability & scalable system design

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Architecture-level understanding (hands-on, not theoretical)

Ideal Candidate Profile

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Typically
8+ years of experience

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Background:

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Started with Java → transitioned to Scala

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Strong in:

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Functional programming

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Distributed systems

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Stream processing

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Hands-on engineer (not managerial)

Interview Process

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Total rounds:
3

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Structure:

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2 coding rounds

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Additional round covering:

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Functional programming (Scala)

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SQL

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AWS

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CI/CD

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System design

Focus Areas

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Scala coding proficiency

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Akka/Pekko frameworks

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Stream processing

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Web services design

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Distributed systems

7. Role Scope & Responsibilities

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Backend application development

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Building:

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Web services

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Data pipelines

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Processing machine-generated events

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No embedded systems interaction