Technical Lead/ Scala/Kafka/Akka

Title: Technical Lead / Sr Back-end Engineer Scala/Kafka/AkkaLocation : AustinRate : $85 c2c 12+ years of experience building scalable back end services3+ years as a tech leadExpert knowledge of Java 11+, reactive Java, Scala, Netty and NginxExtensive experience designing distributed applications architecture and implementing it on code heavily relying on distributed messaging, storage and computeExceptional knowledge and hands-on experience in high volume events processing using both reactive streaming and batching for billions of events and multi-petabytes of dataIn-depth knowledge of relational, NoSQL and Graph databases, HDFS, Kafka, multiple data centers replication strategies and disaster recoveryStrong understanding and experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit and integration testing, containerization, monitoring and alerting, production logs debuggingStrong collaboration skills, system thinking and ability to clearly explain complex concepts