Scala Developer

About us 

RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With microlearning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges. 

The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we’re a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation.

Check out our website https://www.rocked.us/ 

Your Impact 

We’re looking for passionate and self-driven Backend Software Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

• Build scalable and reliable backend services and APIs that power the product.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval. 
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations. 
• Contribute actively to system architecture, proposing enhancements and leading design discussions for new features and services.
• Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap. 
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security 
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices 
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, code reviews, and documentation.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development — from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor junior developers, setting high standards for engineering excellence within the team

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
• Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
• Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic 
• Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting. 
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability. 

Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Remote-first culture with initial in-office training at our Bangalore HQ to help you settle in and connect with the team.
• Company-sponsored travel and stay during quarterly in-person meetups.
• Comprehensive health insurance – ₹10 lakh coverage for you and your family, fully paid by RockED.
• A rare opportunity to learn directly from our investors, who have built and exited multi-million dollar companies.
• Direct access to leadership with experience at top global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• Be part of a diverse and global team working across the US, India, and Germany.
• Unlimited leave policy – built on trust and so far used responsibly by our team.

The candidate should have extensive experience in designing and developing scalable data pipelines and real-time data processing solutions. As a key member of the team, the Senior Data Engineer will play a critical role in building end-to-end data workflows, supporting machine learning model deployment, and driving MLOps practices in a fast-paced, agile environment. Strong expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, AWS SageMaker, and Terraform is essential. Additional experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD for ML models is a significant advantage.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain high-performance ETL and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
2. Build scalable and automated MLOps pipelines for training, validation, and deployment of models using AWS SageMaker and associated services.
3. Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage AWS environments.
4. Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline model deployment workflows and ensure reliable production delivery.
5. Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
6. Develop data transformation logic and integrate data from various internal and external sources into data lakes and warehouses.
7. Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance performance of data systems in a cloud-native, fast-evolving production setup.
8. Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and security standards across all data handling activities.
9. Document data engineering solutions and workflows to facilitate cross-functional understanding and ongoing maintenance.

Mandatory Criteria :

• Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
• Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
• Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
• Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.

# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
• Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
• Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
• Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
• Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
• Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
• Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.

• Participate in requirements analysis and design 
• Development of Web applications and RESTful APIs using C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework 4.7, C#, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework 6.0, EF Core
• Development of Microservices using Clean Architecture, CQRS, .NET Design Patterns, SOLID Principles and Object-oriented design & analysis (OOA & OOD)
• Development of Microservices using Microsoft Azure or AWS, Dockers and Kubernetes
• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages (C#)
• Write Microsoft SQL queries and optimize both external and internal DB processes and procedures.
• Use automation tools, following CI/CD best practices in an established DevOps team.
• Write unit and integration tests using Moq
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support  

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain REST APIs
• Proficient in Python or any other programming language
• Experience in writing Unit/Integration tests.
• Experience with Distributed Version Control System.
• Elasticsearch or Solr experience.
• NOSQL experience- Cassandra, MongoDB.
• Experience in Message brokers - Rabbitmq.
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure, Lambda, Docker/Containers

Desired to have:

• Should be pragmatic and realize when a solution is over-engineered as well as knowing when to spend time on creating the right abstraction that allows us to move faster in the long run.
• Passion for your work and striving to do things “the right way”.
• Familiarity with Agile/Lean process.
• Willingness to work in a Startup environment.
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture and trends

• Challenge technical decisions and web service designs and provide inputs for improvement
• Provide qualified code (tested and documented)
• Fix issues that arise from testing/customers
• Create or update all the relevant and required technical documents (design, architecture, )
• Follow quality development rules and recommendations (unitary test, change management, build management, Software factory…)
• Perform code reviews and suggest improvements
• Work in Agile mode and Test Driven development process
• Collaborate and work closely with all stakeholders

• Hardcore developers who can write performance-based quality code and drive code
• Preferred: Java1.8, Junit, Springboot, Dropwizard, RabbitMQ, Jenkins jobs, NoSQL DB (MongoDB, Neo4j), Docker, and DevOps (Optional: Python, AWS)
• Knowledge about Secure coding guidelines, Sonarqube, Configuration Management (Perforce), Jira
• MUST have experience in Scrum/Agile SDLC
• Value Add – experience on the server side in IPTV/OTT/STB

• Consultant/freelancing role
• Design and build advanced high-quality applications in .Net,.Net Core, Azure or AWS. hands on programming on C#, Web API, NOSQL DB and Azure, AWS.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.
• Able to handle and manage the projects independently.
• Should be hands on developer and write production level code flawlessly
• Will be involved in client interactions and gathering project requirements, suggest best solutions considering NFRs insights
• Someone with an ability to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Ability to work within a rapidly evolving environment.
• Eager to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Bring new ideas and technologies to the team that can improve our product or process.
• Help maintain code quality, unit test cases, documentation, etc