Scala Engineer

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.Job Location Job is located in McLean-VA - Onsite HybridYour Role Responsibilities: Design build and own end-to-end software solutions across the full development lifecycle from architecture to productionDevelop scalable backend systems and data pipelines using ScalaServe as an internal enabler of AIled development onboarding the team onto agentic tools like Claude Cursor WindsurfIdentify and drive productivity acceleration opportunities across the engineering team using AI coding workflowsMentor engineers and set best practices for AI augmented software deliveryCollaborate with product and application teams to ship high-quality features iteratively8-12 years of end-to-end software development experience covering design build test deploy and operateProven track record of delivering production grade systems at scale ideally across multiple domains or industriesExperience working in Agile Scrum environments with cross functional teamsComfortable 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 ecosystemSolid understanding of distributed systems system design and software architecture patterns microservices eventdriven CQRSExperience with test driven development TDD code review practices and CICD pipelinesFamiliarity 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-solvingAbility to evaluate adopt and champion emerging AI coding tools as the landscape evolvesExperience measuring and articulating productivity gains from AI tooling adoption across a team Technical skills Languages frameworks Scala Akka Cats Cats Effect ZIO Play Framework SBTSQL advanced query writing query optimization schema design AI LLM tooling Claude Anthropic API prompt engineering API integration agentic workflowsCursor AInative IDE multifile editing agent modeWindsurf Cascade agentic workflows AIdriven code navigationLLM application development LangChain LlamaIndex RAG pipelines vector databases Pinecone Weaviate pgvectorFamiliarity with OpenAI Gemini or other LLM provider APIs Cloud infrastructure Cloud platforms AWS S3 EC2 ECS Lambda Kinesis RDS GCP or AzureContainerization Docker Kubernetes HelmCICD GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI ArgoCDInfrastructure as Code Terraform Pulumi Observability quality Monitoring and logging Datadog Grafana Prometheus ELK StackTesting unit integration contract testing ScalaTest Test containersCode quality SonarQube linting static analysis Nice to have Experience with LLM application development RAG pipelines prompt engineering or LangChain LlamaIndexBackground in data engineering or platform engineering at scalePrior experience as a technical lead or engineering mentorFamiliarity with functional programming principles Cats Cats Effect ZIOThe base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: 80420 - 106050 Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. 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Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.