Back-End Software Engineer (Scala)

Company overview

Consumer Edge is a data and AI-driven company that equips global organizations with real-time, transaction-based insights. Our engineers work across domains—Data, AI, and application development—to build a platform that translates complex data into clear business intelligence.

Role summary

As a Backend Engineer for the Client Platform Team, you'll develop and maintain backend systems supporting internal and external portals. You'll design APIs, ensure reliability, and contribute to the modernization of Consumer Edge's legacy platform into a scalable, cloud-native architecture.

Your main responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend APIs and services.
• Collaborate with front-end teams to deliver performant, secure integrations.
• Refactor and modernize legacy systems for scalability and observability.
• Write clean, testable code and contribute to CI/CD improvements.
• Support production deployments and ongoing reliability initiatives.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions.

We're looking for someone with

• 3-5 years backend engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Scala.
• Experience building APIs and working with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS).
• Familiarity with Typescript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience building Data pipelines a plus.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• You are comfortable working in a fast moving AI/Data driven start-up environment.

Tech stack & team context

Platform Backend services are primarily Scala-based and deployed on AWS/GCP with GraphQL interfaces. You'll collaborate closely with Client Platform front-end teams ( TypeScript, React) to support platform functionality and performance.

Benefits & perks

We are a remote-first company with a distributed environment and flexible working arrangements. We believe that distributed workers should be first-class citizens. We also have an office in Dublin if offices are your thing.