Scala - AI Senior Software Engineer Job McLean area,Virginia USA,Software Development

Scala - AI Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

McLean, VA, United States (On-site)

Contract (4 months 28 days)

Published 3 days ago

scala

aws cloud

stakeholder communication

CI/CD

AI Development

Testing & Observability

We are looking for a senior software engineer who brings deep technical expertise in Scala alongside hands‑on fluency with the latest AI assisted development tools. You will not just write great code; you will raise the productivity ceiling of our entire engineering team by championing AI‑led development practices.

What you will do:

Design build and own end to end software solutions across the full development lifecycle from architecture to production.
Develop scalable backend systems and data pipelines using Scala.
Serve as an internal enabler of AI led development onboarding the team onto agentic tools like Claude, Cursor, Windsurf.
Identify and drive productivity acceleration opportunities across the engineering team using AI coding workflows.
Mentor engineers and set best practices for AI augmented software delivery.
Collaborate with product and application teams to ship high quality features iteratively.

What we are looking for:
Experience background:

8-12 years of end to end software development experience covering design build test deploy and operate.
Proven track record of delivering production grade systems at scale ideally across multiple domains or industries.
Experience working in Agile Scrum environments with cross functional teams.
Comfortable owning technical decisions independently and presenting solutions to engineering leadership.

AI tooling productivity:

Hands‑on experience using Claude Anthropic for AI-assisted development code generation and problem solving.
Ability to evaluate adopt and champion emerging AI coding tools as the landscape evolves.
Experience measuring and articulating productivity gains from AI tooling adoption across a team.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and upskill engineers at junior and mid levels.
Passionate about building a culture of continuous learning and AI augmented development.
Strong communication skills able to translate technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.

Technical skills:

Languages frameworks: Scala, Akka, Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO, Play Framework, SBT.
SQL: advanced query writing, query optimization, schema design.
AI LLM tooling: Claude Anthropic API, prompt engineering, API integration, agentic workflows.
Cursor AI native IDE multifile editing agent mode.
Windsurf Cascade agentic workflows AI driven code navigation.
Familiarity with Open AI Gemini or other LLM provider APIs.
Cloud infrastructure: AWS S3, EC2, ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS, GCP or Azure.
CICD: Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, ArgoCD.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi.
Observability quality: Monitoring and logging:
Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack.
Testing: unit, integration, contract testing:
Scala Test, Test containers.
Code quality: Sonar Qube, linting, static analysis.

Nice to have:

Experience with LLM application development RAG pipelines prompt engineering or Lang Chain Llama Index.
Background in data engineering or platform engineering at scale.
Prior experience as a technical lead or engineering mentor.
Familiarity with functional programming principles Cats Cats Effect ZIO.

Work at the frontier of AI augmented software engineering not as an experiment but as a core team practice.

Direct influence over how the engineering team works and builds.

Collaborative high ownership culture with modern tooling.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.74/hour - $43.34/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected…