About the Company
QAD Redzone develops software for manufacturing organizations, with a focus on improving frontline productivity, communication, and employee engagement.
Its platform connects Production, Maintenance, and Quality teams and is used by more than 1,000 customers across approximately 2,000 plants and 500,000 users.
QAD Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies.
About the Role
QAD Redzone is seeking a Senior Scala Backend Engineer to develop and maintain its API backend and contribute to AI-related integrations.
The engineer will work primarily with Scala and will be responsible for building reliable backend services, maintaining API contracts, supporting production systems, and contributing to the evolution of a large existing codebase.
The position is a full-time direct hire role. Candidates must already be based in the United Kingdom, and visa sponsorship or relocation support is not available.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the QAD Redzone API backend using Scala.
- Develop and maintain the MCP server supporting AI integrations.
- Improve the use of OpenSearch within the backend application.
- Deliver development work committed during each sprint.
- Apply modern Scala and web technologies to improve the product.
- Provide technical expertise during production incidents.
- Help investigate and resolve customer issues.
- Participate in engineering forums and technical discussions.
- Contribute ideas for continuous system improvement.
- Collaborate with the wider engineering team.
- Write maintainable and testable code.
- Support API-first development practices.
- Maintain versioned API contracts.
- Contribute to backend services deployed on AWS and Kubernetes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer.
- At least 5 years of professional Scala development experience.
- Java development knowledge.
- Experience with API-first development using OpenAPI Specification.
- Experience generating Tapir endpoints and models from OpenAPI specifications.
- Understanding of versioned API contracts.
- Experience using Chimney for object transformations.
- Experience with asynchronous functional programming using Cats Effect.
- Experience publishing and consuming Avro-formatted Kafka messages.
- Experience designing relational database structures using PostgreSQL.
- Experience with transactional database access using Slick or Doobie.
- Understanding of database migration approaches such as expand-and-contract.
- Experience writing observable and testable code.
- Experience with testing libraries such as Specs2 and ScalaMock.
- Ability to refactor and develop within large legacy codebases.
- Understanding of modular software design.
- Experience with Trunk-Based Development.
- Experience with LaunchDarkly feature flags.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including EKS.
- Experience using Docker.
- Current residence in the United Kingdom.
Benefits
- Annual company performance bonus.
- Compensation based on experience, skills, location, and internal pay equity.