Scala Development Tech Lead

Job Description

About the Role

As Scala Development – Tech Lead, you will take a senior, hands-on software engineering role within ContiTech's Enterprise Data & Analytics platform & solutions.

We are looking for an experienced Scala developer who combines deep software engineering expertise with the ability to technically lead the design and implementation of complex solutions. You will work hands-on while providing technical direction to development teams through solution design, code reviews, troubleshooting, reusable components, and engineering standards.

A key part of the role is leading technically challenging implementations and ensuring that solutions meet high standards for maintainability, performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

The solutions developed in this role support complex data processing, acquisition, and system integration scenarios across batch, streaming, APIs, and diverse source systems.

Deep, hands-on professional experience in Scala development is an essential requirement for this position and is expected from the start of the role.

Key Responsibilities

Scala Development & Complex Solution Engineering

• Design, develop, test, maintain, and optimize production-grade solutions in Scala.
• Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of high-complexity use cases and solutions.
• Design and develop reusable Scala applications, libraries, frameworks, components, and utilities.
• Ensure solutions meet high standards for performance, cost efficiency, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational stability.
• Diagnose and resolve complex functional, performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Apply strong software engineering practices, including modular design, test-driven development, code quality, version control, and maintainable solution architecture.

Technical Leadership & Developer Enablement

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to development and engineering teams.
• Translate architecture and platform requirements into implementable technical designs.
• Guide developers in complex implementation decisions and troubleshooting.
• Define development patterns, reference implementations, and reusable components.
• Review critical implementations and ensure adherence to agreed engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and systematically improve development quality across teams.
• Act as technical escalation and design authority for particularly complex or business-critical implementations.

Data Processing, Acquisition & System Integration

• Shape scalable data acquisition and system integration patterns across batch, streaming, APIs, and complex source systems.
• Design robust data processing and integration solutions for complex business and technical requirements.
• Define appropriate patterns for orchestration, schema evolution, error handling, retries, fault tolerance, monitoring, and recoverability.
• Ensure processing and integration solutions are reliable, maintainable, scalable, and operationally sustainable.
• Collaborate with source-system, platform, and solution teams on technical interface and processing designs.
• Support teams in resolving particularly complex data processing and integration challenges.

Qualifications

Professional Experience

• Several years of professional experience designing and developing production-grade software solutions in Scala.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering principles and proven experience delivering complex technical solutions.
• Proven experience taking technical ownership for demanding implementations, including solution design, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production reliability.
• Experience working as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Software Architect, or Senior Developer, providing technical direction, performing code reviews, mentoring developers, and establishing engineering practices.
• Experience applying software engineering capabilities to data processing, data engineering, or system integration scenarios is highly relevant to the scope of this position.
• Ability to combine hands-on development with technical leadership and architectural decision-making.

Deep, hands-on professional Scala development experience is a mandatory requirement for this position and cannot be substituted by experience in other programming languages or adjacent data engineering technologies.

Technical Knowledge & Competencies

• Expert: Scala software development, including advanced language concepts
• Expert: Software architecture, design patterns, clean code, and maintainable software design
• Expert: Test-driven development and software quality practices
• Expert: Technical design and implementation of complex software solutions
• Advanced: Performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization
• Advanced: Git, code review, and CI/CD practices
• Advanced: Batch and streaming processing patterns
• Advanced: API and system integration patterns
• Advanced: Observability, error handling, and resilient processing
• Advanced: Data architecture and data modeling concepts

Education

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

What Makes You Successful in This Role

You bring a strong software engineering background and solid professional experience with Scala, enabling you to contribute effectively to technically complex solutions while collaborating with and supporting other developers.

You are comfortable taking ownership of complex implementations, constructively challenging existing approaches when needed, and translating architectural requirements into clean, maintainable, and reliable software.

Beyond individual implementations, you contribute to reusable engineering patterns and shared standards that help teams develop scalable and maintainable solutions across ContiTech's Enterprise Data & Analytics platform and solutions.

Strong hands-on experience with Scala is important for this role, as it will enable you to contribute to technical discussions, implementation, and engineering decisions from the beginning.

Additional Information

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.

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