diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/sbt-mode/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/sbt-mode/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..092026aca88a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/sbt-mode/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, emacs, unzip }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+
+  name = "sbt-mode-2014-06-05";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/hvesalai/sbt-mode/archive/676f22d9658989de401d299ed0250db9b911574d.zip";
+    sha256 = "0b8qrr3yp48ggl757d3a6bz633mbf4zxqpcwsh47b1ckiwa3nb2h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ unzip emacs ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p "$out/share/emacs/site-lisp"
+    cp -v *.el *.elc "$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/hvesalai/scala-mode2";
+    description = "An Emacs mode for editing Scala code";
+    license = "permissive";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c8f713b31854..ce0f7593f2cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8343,6 +8343,8 @@ let
 
     rudel = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/rudel { };
 
+    sbtMode = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/sbt-mode { };
+
     scalaMode1 = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/scala-mode/v1.nix { };
     scalaMode2 = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/scala-mode/v2.nix { };