Scala Backend Engineer — Play, AWS, Hybrid

The Sage Group plc; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Holiday entitlement

Bank holidays

Volunteer days

Hybrid working

Health coverage

Wellbeing programs

Work away scheme

Training & development

Membership programs

Job summary

The Sage Group plc in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Backend Developer to join the HCM Localisation engineering team. You will design and maintain scalable backend services using Scala 2.x and Play in a Pekko-based environment, work with MySQL, Redis, and AWS, and contribute to CI/CD and cross-functional collaboration.

Hybrid working is supported as we modernise a large-scale enterprise product and focus on production stability, observability, and code quality across the team.

Qualifications

• Backend experience in enterprise SaaS or cloud-based products.
• Strong Scala and Play Framework proficiency.
• Experience with relational DBs (MySQL) and caching (Redis).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Scala and Play in Pekko.
• Build testable, maintainable code with functional design and Futures.
• Work with MySQL to optimize data access and performance.
• Develop, deploy, and support services in AWS with DevOps teams.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, PR workflows, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA, product owners, and other backend developers.
• Improve observability and reduce technical debt for production stability.

Skills

Scala

Play Framework

Pekko/Akka

Futures

SQL optimization

Redis

AWS

CI/CD

Git workflows

Functional programming

Distributed systems

Tools

Grafana

Kibana

Pekko

MySQL

Job description

The Sage Group plc in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Backend Developer to join the HCM Localisation engineering team. You will design and maintain scalable backend services using Scala 2.x and Play in a Pekko-based environment, work with MySQL, Redis, and AWS, and contribute to CI/CD and cross-functional collaboration.

Hybrid working is supported as we modernise a large-scale enterprise product and focus on production stability, observability, and code quality across the team.