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Lead Scala Developer/Backend

Orion Innovation
Berkeley, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 4/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/13/2026
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Lead Scala Developer

You will be responsible for effective Microservice development in Scala and delivery of our NextGen transformation / professional services projects/programs.

  • Adhere the processes followed for development in the program.
  • Report status, and proactively identify issues to the Tech Lead and management team.
  • Personal ownership and accountability for delivering assigned tasks and deliverables within the established schedule.
  • Facilitate a strong and supportive team environment that enables the team as well as individual team members to overcome any political, bureaucratic and/or resource barriers to participation.
  • Recommend and Implement solutions. Be totally hands on and have the ability to work independently.
  • 4 to 8 years of recent hands-on in Scala and Akka Framework
  • Technical Skillset required –
  • Should possess Hands-on experience in Scala development including Akka Framework.
  • Must have good understanding on Akka Streams.
  • Test driven development.
  • Awareness on message broker.
  • Hands-on Experience in design and development of Microservices.
  • Good awareness on Event driven Microservices Architecture.
  • GRPC Protocol Protocol Buffers.
  • Hands-on Experience in Docker Containers.
  • Hands-on Experience in Kubernetes.
  • Awareness on cloud native applications.
  • Jira, Confluence, Ansible, Terraform.
  • Good knowledge of the cloud platforms (preferably AWS), their IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solutions.
  • Good knowledge and hands on experience on the scripting languages like Batch, Bash, hands on experience on Python would be a plus.
  • Knowledge of Integration and unit test and Behavior Driven Development
  • Need to have good problem-solving skills.
  • Good communication skills.


Nice To Have

  • Experience integrating to third party applications.
  • Agile knowledge
  • Good understanding of the configuration management
  • Financial Industry and Core Banking integration experience


Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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