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Track Scala hiring demand in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. A live monthly trend of the functional-JVM language, its data-engineering base, and real postings.

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Postings mentioning it
3,114
This month (Oct 2026 so far)
3
Peak month
Feb 2017 (54)
Mention remote
28%
3,114
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Job postings

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Monthly Scala job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

Scala job postings for October 2026 (so far)

  1. lizwoodfieldta · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …for fundamentals. Across the team you’ll see: • Python, Go, Rust, Scala • PostgreSQL, Snowflake • Kafka, Redis • Terraform, Kubernetes • ML: XGBoost, PyTorch, Feature stores, real-time scoring pipelines If you love solving complex distributed systems challenges, building…

  2. timjulien · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …we also use mobile and offline pipeline languages (Python, Scala, and Terraform). - We're based in NYC with our HQ in Union Square and remote friendly (US) Interesting things we're working on: - HorizonDB, our Geospatial database written in Rust - Agents and MCP tools to…

  3. sandij · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …data, because our mission is everyone secure online. Stack: JVM (Scala with Cats Cats-Effect, http4s, fs2, doobie), gRPC, Postgres and HSMs for the trust services; TypeScript (React, NestJS, oRPC, Drizzle, Playwright) for web; standards like JSON XML PDF signatures and OpenID.…

Some popular Scala job postings

The Scala job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. tiffsaw · hiring in Jun 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …engineering experience - Strong in: Java or similar (Kotlin, Scala, C#) - Experience with: production microservices, distributed systems - Familiar with: messaging event streaming (Kafka, Pulsar) - Solid relational database and data modeling skills - Nice-to-have: fintech,…

  2. melissamrec · hiring in Feb 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …or Hugging Face. Backend Engineer: (looking for Kotlin Java Scala experience). You'll work across the backend: building enterprise integrations, large-scale scraping and parsing pipelines, and systems that let users apply LLMs to millions of documents to generate insights at…

  3. poeticsilence · hiring in Feb 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …CA Remote: OK Willing to Relocate: No Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Javascript, Python, TypeScript, Haskell, Scheme Programming Strengths: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, No-Code, AI&Prompt Engineering, Complex &…

  4. skatkar · hiring in Mar 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …York, NY San Francisco, CA Type: Onsite- Hybrid work We use: Java, Scala, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Cosmos DB, Aerospike, FoundationDB, Delta Lake, K8s, Azure AWS, Docker, OpenAI, Vector DBs. Looking for: • 8+ years building large-scale distributed or streaming systems •…

  5. critium · hiring in Jun 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …at internet-scale that only a handful of teams ever reach. * FP Scala is our main programming language. Apply if you have FP experience - we consider other language backgrounds coming in but you will be doing FP Scala, so expect an FP style interview. * Strong collaborator - this…

What the Scala hiring trend shows

Scala occupies a specific niche in the 'Who is hiring?' thread: a functional-leaning JVM language whose demand is tied closely to big-data and data-engineering work (Spark, Kafka) rather than general backend hiring. The chart shows a smaller, more cyclical curve than the mainstream languages - use share mode to see how its slice moves with the data-platform cycle, and counts for absolute volume. Drill into any month to read the postings and see which roles still reach for Scala over Kotlin or plain Java.

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