Scala Engineer

Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer with SC clearance to deliver backend APIs for digital services. You will shape API delivery, optimize high-volume, low-latency systems and work with product owners and data teams to implement secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, Agile practices, and running in a lean, you-build-it-you-run-it environment. London-based, with cloud and security responsibilities across services.

Qualifications

• Security clearance (SC-level)
• API design
• Data analysis
• Databases
• AWS Suite experience
• Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering and support
• Skilled at returning services to good states in outage situations
• Understanding testing and automation
• Experience in lean, agile environment
• You build it you run it team
• Experience coding in CI context

Responsibilities

• Define and shape API delivery for digital services
• Develop back-end code and clean, testable APIs
• Manage databases with security and data protection in mind
• Collaborate with product owner, business analyst, data engineers and teams
• Contribute to consolidation and high-volume, low-latency service goals
• Reduce maintenance through incremental re-architecture

Skills

Scala

Play framework

SQL

AWS Suite

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Site Reliability Awareness

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Kibana

Grafana

Airflow

Job description

Job Description

Our Central Government client is looking for an SC Cleared Scala Engineer to embark on a front end digital service. As the Senior Scala Engineer you will define and shape the way we deliver the APIs to Digital services to provide attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention across the Department

This Work Involves

• including consolidation, to allow us to provide a consistent and easy to use experience for users.
• Consideration for delivering high-volume, high-availability and low-latency services
• Improvement of our existing services
• Reducing our maintenance efforts through incremental re-architecting - e.g. reducing the number of technologies that are required to support the pipeline and using managed services where appropriate.
• Design and develop clean functioning, testable code on the back-end, write effective APIs, develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications with security and data protection settings
• Collaborate with the product owner, business analyst, data engineers and the wider teams to ideate software solutions

Knowledge And Experience

• Security clearance (SC-level)
• API design
• Data analysis
• Databases
• AWS suite experience
• Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering and support
• Skilled at returning services to good states in outage situations
• Understands the importance of testing and automation
• Working in a lean, agile environment
• Working in a you build it you run it team
• Experience coding in continuous integration context

Essential

Skills and technologies

• Scala
• Play or other MVC/Rest API frameworks
• SQL
• AWS Suite
• Continuous Integration
• Agile methodologies

Desirable

• Containerisation principles / Docker
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• Grafana
• Airflow

£600.00 / day