Location: Remote from Spain (an indefinite Spanish employment contract) Intellias is partnering with a Fortune 100, Midwest-based industrial manufacturer to modernize and expand a suite of cloud-based services and data products used by a general network of dealers, enterprise customers, and internal business units. Our cross-functional teams deliver scalable APIs, event-driven services, and analytics pipelines that power quoting, ordering, asset telemetry, diagnostics, and lifecycle support for heavy equipment in the field.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with Scala designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services and distributed systems in production.

10+ years of software engineering experience (preferrably Java)

5+ years of experience building distributed systems using

Akka (Streams, Actors, HTTP, Persistence)

or

Apache Pekko .

5+ years of experience with

AWS

Strong experience designing and operating event-driven distributed systems using technologies such as

Kafka ,

AWS Kinesis , or equivalent messaging platforms .

Strong experience with functional programming concepts and libraries such as

Cats ,

Cats Effect, or ZIO.

Hands-on experience with

Docker .

Strong experience with

PostgreSQL and

SQL query development.

Experience with

CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines (preferably

GitHub Actions )

Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures and stream-processing systems.

Experience with microservice architectures.

Experience working within Agile software development environments.





Strong understanding of software architecture and solution design.

Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives.

Ability to provide a 6-hour overlap with US Central Time (CT) on business days, working until 2 PM CT at the latest, which is equivalent to working until 9 PM Spain time.

Nice to have

Experience with Java 17+/21.

Experience with Spring Boot.

Experience with Hibernate/JPA.

Experience with DynamoDB.

Experience with CloudFormation.

Experience with Flyway.

Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.

Experience processing telemetry or event data at scale.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Scala.

Build reliable event-processing, notification, and integration services.

Develop APIs and distributed system components in highly available environments.

Deliver scalable, fault-tolerant solutions that provide business value.

Contribute to system architecture, technical design, and engineering decisions.

Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis.

Support integration, acceptance, and quality assurance testing activities.

Maintain high software quality through testing, reviews, documentation, and best practices.

Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence within the team.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in Agile environments.

Own services throughout their lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and production support.

📌 Senior Scala Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Intellias
📍 Madrid