Senior Scala Developer

Join a great team of Scala programmers who love functional programming as much as you do. We are building a platform to support Computational Knowledge Graphs, automated inference, goal-oriented planning, Bayes Nets and other AI methods. If you’re part of a development team that would like to stick together, we’ll hire the whole team. Everyone on our project is remote – you can be based anywhere.

SparkCognition catalyzes sustainable growth for our clients throughout the world with proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine learning technology, and a multinational team of AI thought leaders. Our clients are trusted with advancing lives, infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their industry’s most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity with scalable AI solutions to solve the problems that matter most. With our leading-edge artificial intelligence products and solutions, our clients can adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape, accelerate their business strategies, and reduce environmental impact creating a better, smarter, and more sustainable world.

We are looking for a Senior Full-stack Engineer with experience in cloud applications to join the team. (This is a direct-hire, full-time role.) If you're interested in working for a startup, want to make a difference in this, and want to be the lead technical person, we want to talk to you. If you have a passion for Scala functional programming then this is a great opportunity for you.

If you were working for us today, you would be:

• Working on the various elements of the platform and translating ideas into coherent software development roadmaps
• Making important decisions about the software stack and infrastructure
• Writing robust, maintainable, and future-proof code
• Managing consultants and eventually leading our software development team and delegating effectively
• Performing code reviews, leading software designing architecture discussions, and communicating technical information to non-technical teams

You may be a fit for our team if you have:

• Degree in Computer Science (or related) degree 
• 4+ years of experience as a Full-Stack or Back end developer in a startup or a mid-size company especially with exposure to big data and cloud applications
• A passion for startups and the tech culture
• A results-driven personality with strong leadership qualities 
• A background in building enterprise cloud-based applications
• Willingness to learn new languages/technologies
• Experience working as a part of an engineering team on a production codebase
• Some understanding of functional programming concepts
• Working with applications, not just Spark jobs
• Ideally, experience with Scala, Akka HTTP, Typescript, Node Servers, GraphQL, OpenAPI, gRPC
• Bonus points for experience with Helm/K8s, Python, Rust, C/C++