About the Role

Job Title: Senior Scala Engineer

Salary: USD $300-350 per day

Location: 100% Remote (Candidates must reside in Turkey)

Contract Type: 12-Month Contract (with possible extension)

Client: Cressoft

Role Overview:

Our client, one of the most well-known supermarket chains and one of the most popular e-commerce companies in the UK is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer to join a high-performing backend engineering team responsible for maintaining and evolving critical services that support supply chain systems. This engineer will work alongside three experienced Scala developers and contribute to event-driven, functional, and reactive systems built with Scala, Akka, and functional libraries.

The role is ideal for engineers with strong expertise in Scala, functional programming, and cloud-native systems, looking to contribute to a mission-critical architecture used across multiple business domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Scala-based backend microservices using Akka and functional programming libraries.
• Support and enhance systems and legacy supply chain services.
• Ensure system reliability and stability through reactive programming and DevOps best practices.
• Work closely with other engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver roadmap items.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in infrastructure, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with strong focus on quality and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and cross-functional collaboration.

Must-Have Skills:

✅ Strong hands-on experience with Scala (latest versions)

✅ Deep knowledge of the Akka framework

✅ Experience with functional programming libraries such as Cats, Typelevel, and Shapeless

✅ Familiarity with event-driven and reactive programming concepts

✅ Solid experience with AWS, particularly Lambda and S3

✅ Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps best practices, and monitoring tools

✅ Strong understanding of relational databases (e.g. AWS RDS)

✅ Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in production-critical environments

Nice-to-Have Skills:

🛠 Exposure to other AWS services (even if not used heavily)

🛠 Experience working in large enterprise environments

🛠 Basic familiarity with Java is a plus (not mandatory)

Team Setup & Environment:

• You’ll be joining a team of 3 experienced Scala engineers.
• The team supports long-running services, some of which are shared across multiple domains
• The team is focused on stability, scalability, and cost efficiency, with strong production ownership.

What the Client Offers:

• A role in a high-impact engineering team maintaining business-critical systems.
• Opportunity to work with modern Scala stack and cloud-native technologies.
• A stable, long-term contract with the backing of a major UK retail brand.