Scala Backend Engineer for Government Digital Services

Scrumconnect Consulting; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks an experienced Scala/Play Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade software components. You will contribute to end-to-end delivery, write secure, well-tested code, and help scale services in a hybrid, cross-functional team.

You will collaborate with designers and product colleagues, participate in peer reviews, and mentor junior developers while aligning with GDS standards and WCAG accessibility goals.

Qualifications

• Strong Scala and Play Framework experience with production systems.
• Proven skills in secure-by-default engineering and information security basics.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating microservices.
• Comfort with on-call and incident response in production environments.
• Collaborative, user-focused work with designers and product teams.
• Familiar with agile or hybrid delivery models (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in UK public sector or regulated environments is a plus.
• Contributions to open-source government engineering ecosystems encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-performance Scala components end-to-end.
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code following FP and modern standards.
• Operate and scale services, triage and resolve production issues.
• Improve internal engineering best practices and participate in code reviews.
• Mentor apprentices and junior developers within the team.
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, and researchers to shape scope.

Skills

Scala

Play Framework

ScalaTest/Specs2

CI/CD

Security principles

RESTful API

Microservices

On-call support

Observability

Agile delivery

User-centred design

Public sector experience

Open-source contributions

Community talks/mentoring

Tools

AWS

GitHub

Grafana

Kubernetes

MongoDB

Terraform

Splunk

JVM

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks an experienced Scala/Play Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade software components. You will contribute to end-to-end delivery, write secure, well-tested code, and help scale services in a hybrid, cross-functional team.

You will collaborate with designers and product colleagues, participate in peer reviews, and mentor junior developers while aligning with GDS standards and WCAG accessibility goals.