Scala - AI Senior Software Engineer

Lorven Technologies Inc
McLean, VA, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Akka (Toolkit) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Big Data Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (Software Development) Information Engineering Extract Transform Load (ETL) Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements) Distributed Systems
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Github Monitoring of Systems Play Framework Prometheus Scala (Programming Language) Software Engineering Datadog Pulumi Test-Driven Development (TDD) Sql Optimization Large Language Models Grafana Prompt Engineering Event Driven Architecture Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Sbt (Software) Terraform Docker Jenkins Microservices

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Scala-AI Senior Software Engineer with 8 12 years of software development experience and strong expertise in Scala, distributed systems, and AI-assisted development tools. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about leveraging AI to accelerate software delivery and engineering productivity. Required Skills

Requirements

  • 8 12 years of end-to-end software development experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on Scala development
  • Strong knowledge of Akka, Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO, Play Framework, SBT
  • Expertise in Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS
  • Advanced SQL, ETL/ELT, and large-scale data processing
  • Experience with TDD, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI
  • Hands-on with Claude (Anthropic), Cursor, Windsurf, AI-assisted development workflows
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector
  • Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform/Pulumi
  • Monitoring tools: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
  • Strong mentoring, communication, and leadership skills

Nice to Have

  • LLM application development
  • Prompt engineering
  • Platform/Data Engineering experience
  • Technical leadership or mentoring experience

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