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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Scala Engineer - **Company:** Xebia - **Location:** Jávea, Spain (Remote available) - **Salary:** €50,000.0 - €65,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Akka (Toolkit), Amazon S3, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, High-Level Architecture, Software Engineering, Apache Kafka, Functional Programming, Restful APIs, New Relic (SaaS), Software Version Control, Serverless Computing, Jenkins - **Published:** September 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e8ce3b586ea1e0f7580849c4744b63dd5 ## About the Role * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. * Strong proficiency in Scala and functional programming paradigms. * Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in enterprise environments. * Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, including source control, CI/CD, and different testing approaches. * Strong knowledge of distributed systems, including experience supporting high-throughput systems in production. * Hands-on experience with AWS services and technologies related to compute, databases, storage, containers, and serverless architectures, specially AWS S3 and EKS. * Experience with Kafka and event-driven or asynchronous architectures. * Ability to evaluate engineering trade-offs against business requirements. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Nice to Have * Experience with the Lightbend ecosystem, particularly Akka. * Experience with Elasticsearch. * Experience with Jenkins. * Experience with New Relic. ## Description As a Senior Scala Engineer at Xebia, you will join a highly collaborative engineering environment focused on building performant, scalable, and reliable solutions using Scala and functional programming principles. You will work on complex distributed systems, contributing to their architecture, design, and development while helping solve challenging technical problems at scale. Beyond hands-on engineering, you will participate in high-level architecture discussions, contribute to technical decision-making, and help maintain strong engineering standards across the team., * Work closely with a highly collaborative group of engineers to design and deliver scalable software solutions. * Build performant solutions capable of scaling with increasing business demands. * Contribute to a strong engineering culture and help promote engineering best practices. * Lead and participate in high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions. * Design simple, pragmatic solutions to complex engineering problems. * Maintain high standards of code quality through code reviews and constructive pull request feedback. * Demonstrate accountability and ownership at both individual and team level. * Author technical proposals and provide constructive feedback on technical designs. * Contribute to root cause analyses and continuous improvement following production issues. ## Related Videos - [Flex your Energy: Building a Cloud-Native Platform for Renewable Energy Communities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1990-flex-your-energy-building-a-cloud-native-platform-for-renewable-energy-communities) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - CSS is DOOMed](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1838-wearedevelopers-live-css-is-doomed) - [The Road to MLOps: How Verivox Transitioned to AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1050-the-road-to-mlops-how-verivox-transitioned-to-aws) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Our GitOps approach for deploying an Identity Provider and an API Gateway in a SaaS company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/776-our-gitops-approach-for-deploying-an-identity-provider-and-an-api-gateway-in-a-saas-company) - [Enterprise-Cloud-Native - Fast-Paced Development & Deployment in a Highly Secure Banking Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/671-enterprise-cloud-native-fast-paced-development-deployment-in-a-highly-secure-banking-environment) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)