Vish is a B2B SaaS company transforming the business of beauty, and we don't sound like a typical software company. Our platform and smart Bluetooth scale help salons eliminate colour waste, manage inventory, grow service revenue, and understand their colour business in a way they never could before. We're defining a category as we scale across five countries, and our ambition is to reshape supply chain management for the entire hair colour industry.We're a distributed engineering team that cares deeply about building things well. We're opinionated about functional programming, and we're proud that the work we do helps small businesses thrive while cutting real environmental waste.LocationIn office 5 days a week - TorontoThe Impact You Will HaveAs a Senior Scala Engineer, you'll be a core contributor to the backend that powers Vish. You'll take ambiguous, high-level requirements and turn them into well-designed, modular, production-grade systems. You'll set a high bar for engineering craft, through the code you write, the reviews you give, and the people you mentor, and help shape the architecture as Vish grows.This is a hands‐on senior role for someone who leads by showing more than telling, and who genuinely enjoys functional programming done properly.What You Will DoBuild and designClarify vague or ill-posed requirements and turn them into a concrete implementation plan, decomposing scope into well-defined sub-componentsDesign interfaces and EDSLs, and write clean, modular, extensible codeRefactor existing code to make it more extensible and maintainableWork across our functional stack, including ZIO, Cats, Cats Effect, Doobie, ScalaCheck, and AkkaRaise the engineering barReview merge requests and give thoughtful feedback, as review comments,



written notes, or code patches, and approve them when they're readyParticipate in and lead architectural and design discussions, proposing and critiquing implementation plansConduct and take part in paired programming and review sessionsMentor and communicateCoach and mentor other engineers in your areas of expertiseEstimate complexity, provide realistic completion estimates, and proactively manage stakeholder expectations when things changeWhat You Will BringSeveral years of experience writing production codeSeveral years of functional programming experience, this is essentialHands‐on experience with one or more of Scala, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Erlang, Elixir, or Rust (Scala experience strongly preferred)Solid experience with databases (relational or NoSQL), Git, and the Linux command lineStrength in modular, extensible design, and the judgement to infer missing acceptance criteriaExperience with build systems and resolving dependency conflictsStrong root-cause analysis skills, and the discipline to avoid unproductive rabbit holesThe ability to work effectively in a language or library you've never used beforeEmpathy, humility, and personal accountability, someone who holds themselves and others to a high standardExperience with Test-Driven Development and Property-Based Testing is a solid assetWhy VishWork on a real functional Scala codebase with a team that cares about doing it wellBuild software with genuine impact, helping small businesses succeed while reducing environmental wasteJoin a category-defining SaaS company at a global scaleA collaborative engineering culture that values craft over ceremonyCompetitive compensation and benefits (to include RRSP and a comprehensive Health and Dental benefits) #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Scala Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Vish
📍 Toronto