Scala & Spark Backend Developer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Competitive score due to strong focus on big data technologies and a solid package of benefits.
- Strong focus on evolving big data technologies and practices
- Flexible hybrid work model with international project exposure
- Comprehensive benefits package to support well-being
Pros
- Work with leading technologies in the big data field
- Opportunity to be part of a high-performance, Agile team
- Continuous learning opportunities and training programs
Cons
- Candidates need a solid technical background, making it less suitable for beginners
- May require working under tight deadlines in an Agile setup
- Position entails the need for complex data handling skills
Who it's for
Mid-Level • Hybrid
Good fit
- Mid-level developers with specific big data skills
- Professionals looking to expand their data engineering knowledge
- Agile enthusiasts eager for hands-on development experiences
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates lacking experience in Scala and Spark
- Individuals uncomfortable in collaborative coding environments
- Those not interested in big data technologies or ETL processes
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Company Description
Talan is an international advisory group on innovation and transformation through technology, with 5000 employees, and a turnover of 600M€.
We offer our customers a continuum of services to support you at each key stage of your organization's transformation, with 4 main activities:
- CONSULTING in management and innovation : supporting business, managerial, cultural, and technological transformations.
- DATA & TECHNOLOGY to implement major transformation projects.
- CLOUD & APPLICATION SERVICES to build or integrate software solutions.
- SERVICE CENTERS of EXCELLENCE to support the latter through technology, innovation, agility, sustainability of skills and cost optimization.
Talan accelerates it's clients' transformation through innovation and technology. By understanding their challenges, with our support, innovation, technology and data, we enable them to be more efficient and resilient.
We believe that only a human oriented-practice of technology will make the new digital age an era of progress for all. Together let's commit!
Job Description
Your mission will be to develop, test and deploy technical and functional specifications from the Solution Designers/Business Architects/Business Analysts, guaranteeing the correct operability and the compliance with the internal quality levels. We need somebody like you to help us in different fronts:
- You will develop end-to-end ETL processes with Spark & Scala. This includes transferring data from/to the data lake, technical validations, business logic, etc.
- You will use Scrum methodology, and be part of a high performance team
- You will document your solutions in: JIRA, Confluence, ALM…
- You will certify your delivery and its integration with other components, designing and performing the relevant test to ensure the quality of your team delivery.
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
- At least 2 years of experience working with Spark and Scala
- Experience in working with big data – Hadoop, Hive; knowledge of Azure Databricks is considered as a plus.
- Experience and expertise across data integration and data management with high data volumes.
- Knowledge of good practices in writing code: clean code, software design patterns, functional style of writing code, TDD.
- Experience working in Agile continuous integration/DevOps paradigm and tool set (Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus, Jira)
- Experience with different database structures, including (Postgres, SQL, Hive).
- English (at least B2+).
Preferred qualifications:
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Orchestration: Control-M, Airflow
- Scripting: Bash, Python
- Software development life cycle (HP ALM,..)
- Basics of cybersecurity & Quality (Sonar, Fortify…)
- Basics of Cloud computing (Docker, Kubernetes, OS3, Azure, AWS)
Additional Information
- Permanent, full-time contract
- Training and career development
- Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, lunch pass card, MultiSport Plus card
- Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects
- Hybrid position based in Warsaw, Poland
- Possibility to manage work permits
