Scala, Kafka, Distributed & Event-Driven Systems
Back-end Engineer
Available for hire
Years of
experience
20+ years
Experience
level
Staff
Available
for
Full-time, Contract
Available from
30 Jun 2026
Staff backend engineer with 20+ years of experience, including 6+ years building distributed systems with Scala (Typelevel stack: Cats Effect, FS2, http4s). I design and build distributed systems, Kafka-driven pipelines, and high-load backend services in fintech and integration-heavy domains.
Strong focus on reliability, idempotency, and failure handling. Experienced in building payment processing systems, asynchronous pipelines, and production-grade microservices.
Looking for remote contract/B2B backend roles focused on distributed systems and production-critical services. Flexible with working hours and able to overlap with EU and US time zones.
Employment History
Staff backend engineer at
Region LLC
Current
2023
-
Now
Backend engineer on a transport platform processing real-time GPS data and route tracking. Designed and implemented backend services for vehicle tracking and route monitoring, processing real-time data streams. Built a task scheduling system with <2s latency under load. Developed payment integration supporting single- and two-stage transactions and card management. Integrated routing logic using GraphHopper for route optimization and deviation detection. Tech stack: Scala (Cats Effect, Akka), Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC.
Senior backend engineer at
CRPT
2018
-
2023
Senior backend engineer on a large-scale electronic document management system for government-regulated workflows. Designed system architecture and core backend services for high-load processing. Implemented integrations with external systems (1C and other regulated platforms). Built centralized logging and monitoring for operational visibility. Developed resilient retry and reprocessing mechanisms for failed and delayed operations. Tech stack: Scala (Akka, Cats), Kafka, HBase, Apache Phoenix.
Education
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at
Tashkent State Technical University
2013
-
2017