Senior Scala Engineer - - Remote

• Experience :- minimum 6 years
• Job Type - Full-Time Permanent role
• Job Location - Hybrid Model
• Shift timing - Day Shift (Hiring for US Product based company)

Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Masters or PhD a plus.
• 6 years experience engineering software and data platforms / enterprise-scale data warehouses, preferably with knowledge of open source Apache stack (especially Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, and others).
• 3 years experience with Scala and Apache Spark.
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query planning, optimizing and distributed data warehouse systems experience is preferred but not required.
• Nice to have: Knowledge of blockchain indexing, web3 compute paradigms, Proofs and consensus mechanisms is a strong plus but not required.
• Experience with rapid development cycles in a web-based environment.
• Strong scripting and test automation knowledge.
• Nice to have: Passionate about Web3, blockchain, decentralization, and a base understanding of how data/analytics plays into this.

Responsibilities:

• Writing Scala code with tools like Apache Spark Apache Arrow to build a hosted, multi-cluster data warehouse for Web3.
• Developing database optimizers, query planners, query and data routing mechanisms, cluster-to-cluster communication, and workload management techniques
• Scaling up from proof of concept to “cluster scale” (and eventually hundreds of clusters with hundreds of terabytes each), in terms of both infrastructure/architecture and problem structure.
• Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate meta data capturing and management.
• Managing a team of software engineers writing new code to build a bigger, better, faster, more optimized HTAP database (using Apache Spark, Apache Arrow and a wealth of other open source data tools).
• Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components.
• Highly engaged with industry trends within analytics domain from a data acquisition processing, engineering, management perspective.
• Understand data and analytics use cases across Web3 / blockchains.

What we offer

• Aggressive bonus structure AND tokens (similar to stock options)
• Very Flexible PTO and paid holidays, and flexible workweek
• Very flexible remote work options

A massive list of perks including add-on bonuses for hard work, attending exciting events/conferences/parties, we’re headquartered on the beach near LA (but don’t mind you working remote) and we’ll fly you to our company offsites.