Senior Scala Engineer
RA Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Senior Backend Engineering role at RA. San Mateo · full-time · up to $170,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Take responsibility for one or more platform components
- Build and maintain the platform with other engineers, contributing to architecture and integration decisions
- Design, implement, review and test security, data management, REST services, analytics, and monitoring systems
What you bring
- Expert programming ability in Java or Scala, plus fluency with software practices such as source control and unit testing
- You have shipped customer-facing software to production and owned substantial projects or feature sets
- You bring healthcare domain knowledge and experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- You have worked with data science algorithms, Python scripting and manipulation, and big data tools such as Cassandra or Hadoop
Who this fits
This senior engineering role suits someone ready to own platform components and work closely with engineers on architecture and implementation. The job is onsite in San Mateo, with no travel; visa support is available.
From the employer
We embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
What can we promise?
- Salary up to $170,000
- Medical Benefits, Retirement, and Equity
- No travel
- Candidate Visa Supported
When you are on board!
- You will own one or more components of our platform
- You will work side-by-side with engineers on architecture, integration and maintenance of the platform
- You will design, architecture, develop, review codes, and test key system areas likeSecurity Architecture, Data Management Layer, High Availability RESTful web services, Extensible Analytics Pipeline, and Logging and Monitoring Infrastructure
- And so much more.....let’s talk!
We’d love to have you on board, if:
- You have expert-level programming skills in JVM languages: Java / Scala
- You are proficient in Software Development Best Practices (SCM / Unit Tests)
- You have deployed customer-facing software into a Production Environment
- You have demonstrated ownership of large projects or feature sets
- You have good healthcare domain expertise
- You have experience with both SQL and noSQL DB systems
- You have experience in Data Science Algorithms
- You have experience with Data manipulation and scripting with Python
- You know Big Data Technologies such as Cassandra, Hadoop and Elastic Search
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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