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# Backend Software Developer

- **Company:** 3Core Systems, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Akka (Toolkit), Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Github, Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP), Identity and Access Management, Query Optimization, Scala (Programming Language), Singleton Pattern, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Web Services, System Availability, Backend, Functional Programming, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Service Stack
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a72daf4f-00ff-44e0-bbd1-31f6d638be7a

## About the Role

· Scala (mandatory):

o Minimum 2-3 years of hands-on experience

· Java:

o Strong experience with Java 17+

· Backend Development:

o Building web services and data pipelines

Frameworks & Technologies

· Akka / Pekko (critical):

o Akka Streams (now Pekko Streams)

o Actors, Cluster, Singleton, Persistence, HTTP

· Functional Programming:

o Experience with Cats / Cats Effect

· Streaming & Distributed Systems:

o High-concurrency and distributed architecture experience

AWS & Cloud Stack

· Strong experience required with:

o IAM

o Kinesis

o DynamoDB

o SQS / SNS

o API Gateway

o KMS

Additional Technical Skills

· SQL and query optimization

· CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

· DevOps exposure

· High availability & scalable system design

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

Ideal Candidate Profile

· Typically 8+ years of experience

· Background:

o Started with Java * transitioned to Scala

· Strong in:

o Functional programming

o Distributed systems

o Stream processing

· Hands-on engineer (not managerial), o 2 coding rounds

o Additional round covering:

§ Functional programming (Scala)

§ SQL

§ AWS

§ CI/CD

§ System design

Focus Areas

· Scala coding proficiency

· Akka/Pekko frameworks

· Stream processing

· Web services design

· Distributed systems



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