Scala - AI Senior Software Engineer

McLean, VA, United States (On-site)

Contract (4 months 28 days)

Published 2 days ago

scala

Docker & Kubernetes

aws cloud

stakeholder communication

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum methodology

AI Development

Testing & Observability

We are looking for a senior software engineer who brings deep technical expertise in Scala alongside hands-on fluency with the latest AI assisted development tools You will not just write great code you will raise the productivity ceiling of our entire engineering team by championing AI led development practices

What you will do:

• Design build and own end to end software solutions across the full development lifecycle from architecture to production
• Develop scalable backend systems and data pipelines using Scala
• Serve as an internal enabler of AI led development onboarding the team onto agentic tools like Claude Cursor Windsurf
• Identify and drive productivity acceleration opportunities across the engineering team using AI coding workflows
• Mentor engineers and set best practices for AI augmented software delivery
• Collaborate with product and application teams to ship high quality features iteratively

What we are looking for:

Experience background:

• 8-12 years of end to end software development experience covering design build test deploy and operate
• Proven track record of delivering production grade systems at scale ideally across multiple domains or industries
• Experience working in Agile Scrum environments with cross functional teams
• Comfortable owning technical decisions independently and presenting solutions to engineering leadership

Engineering depth:

• 5 years of hands-on Scala development strong grasp of functional programming type systems and the JVM ecosystem
• Solid understanding of distributed systems system design and software architecture patterns microservices event driven CQRS
• Experience with test driven development TDD code review practices and CICD pipelines
• Familiarity with data modelling ETLELT pipelines and working with largescale datasets

AI tooling productivity:

• Hands-on experience using Claude Anthropic for AI-assisted development code generation and problem solving
• Ability to evaluate adopt and champion emerging AI coding tools as the landscape evolves
• Experience measuring and articulating productivity gains from AI tooling adoption across a team

Leadership enablement:

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and upskill engineers at junior and mid levels
• Passionate about building a culture of continuous learning and AI augmented development
• Strong communication skills able to translate technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders

Technical skills:

Languages frameworks:

• Scala Akka Cats Cats Effect ZIO Play Framework SBT
• SQL advanced query writing query optimization schema design

AI LLM tooling:

• Claude Anthropic API prompt engineering API integration agentic workflows
• Cursor AI native IDE multifile editing agent mode
• Windsurf Cascade agentic workflows AI driven code navigation
• LLM application development LangChain LlamaIndex RAG pipelines vector databases Pinecone Weaviate pgvector
• Familiarity with Open AI Gemini or other LLM provider APIs

Cloud infrastructure:

• Cloud platforms AWS S3 EC2 ECS Lambda Kinesis RDS GCP or Azure
• Containerization Docker Kubernetes Helm
• CICD GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI ArgoCD
• Infrastructure as Code Terraform Pulumi

Observability quality:

• Monitoring and logging Datadog Grafana Prometheus ELK Stack
• Testing unit integration contract testing ScalaTest Test containers
• Code quality SonarQube linting static analysis

Nice to have:

• Experience with LLM application development RAG pipelines prompt engineering or LangChain LlamaIndex
• Background in data engineering or platform engineering at scale
• Prior experience as a technical lead or engineering mentor
• Familiarity with functional programming principles Cats Cats Effect ZIO

Why join us:

• Work at the frontier of AI augmented software engineering not as an experiment but as a core team practice
• Direct influence over how the engineering team works and builds
• Collaborative high ownership culture with modern tooling

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.74/hour - $43.34/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.