Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No, but open to occasional travel
Technologies: Scala, Clojure, Java, TypeScript, AWS, Akka, Spark, Cats, ZIO, React, Kubernetes, Terraform; DevOps and microservices architecture; increasingly using AI tools in the dev workflow; brushing up on Rust and Go
Résumé/CV: https://resume.alex.stangl.us/
Email: alex.stangl@gmail.com
Senior backend engineer with deep experience in distributed systems, Scala, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. Strong background in functional programming, CI/CD modernization, and scalable services. US citizen, open to opportunities in the St. Louis area but prefer remote.
I've built web UIs across a few different stacks but prefer backend work. I've served as team lead, tech lead, and mentor. I'm a big proponent of using AI tools for code generation, code review, and automation — anything that makes life easier for developers and end users. I gravitate toward hard problems, especially science-adjacent ones, and toward systems that touch a lot of people. Bonus points for open source.
Coworkers and friends come to me when they're stuck on something gnarly. I write clean code and back it with thorough unit and integration tests, but I stay pragmatic about performance — I've profiled and reworked systems multiple times to cut runtime or memory footprint by 1000x or more.
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I've built web UIs across a few different stacks but prefer backend work. I've served as team lead, tech lead, and mentor. I'm a big proponent of using AI tools for code generation, code review, and automation — anything that makes life easier for developers and end users. I gravitate toward hard problems, especially science-adjacent ones, and toward systems that touch a lot of people. Bonus points for open source.
Coworkers and friends come to me when they're stuck on something gnarly. I write clean code and back it with thorough unit and integration tests, but I stay pragmatic about performance — I've profiled and reworked systems multiple times to cut runtime or memory footprint by 1000x or more.
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