Tech Lead (Scala)

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Tech Lead (Scala) for a full-time position (40 hours per week), fully remote in Europe. Our client is a finance company and an alternative lending platform focused on providing capital access to small and medium-sized businesses.

You will lead an engineering team on a fintech client engagement. This is a full-stack role combining hands-on Scala backend and React frontend development with technical leadership, team management, and client communication.

Time zone: U.S. Eastern Time (ET)

Requirements

• 7+ years of commercial software development experience with strong Scala expertise.
• 3+ years of experience in a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or similar leadership role.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a client-facing environment.
• Exposure to React and modern frontend development.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, data structures, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Experience with RabbitMQ (experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems is a plus).
• Experience with PostgreSQL or comparable relational databases.
• Solid commercial experience with AWS.
• Experience with REST APIs and microservice-based architectures.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Will be a plus

• Experience with Heroku or Python.
• Background in fintech or financial services.

Responsibilities

Technical leadership

• Lead technical design and implementation across the Scala backend and React frontend.
• Remain hands-on in development, with a stronger backend focus when needed.
• Define architecture for new features, services, and integrations.
• Establish coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Lead code reviews and support the team with complex technical issues.
• Ensure system performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Evaluate libraries, frameworks, and technical solutions together with the client’s engineering team.

Team leadership

• Lead, mentor, and support the engineering team.
• Maintain clear priorities and consistent delivery quality.
• Facilitate stand-ups, planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, workload, and capacity issues.
• Support onboarding and knowledge sharing across the team.

Client collaboration

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for the client’s engineering and product teams.
• Communicate technical risks, blockers, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly.
• Participate in planning sessions, discovery workshops, technical discussions, and sprint reviews.
• Translate business requirements into technical tasks and implementation plans.
• Align key architectural and technical decisions with the client’s engineering team.