Scala Software Engineer - Hybrid GovTech

Scrumconnect Consulting; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Software Developer to design, build and maintain high‑quality software for UK government clients. You will join a multidisciplinary agile team, delivering user‑centred services that meet GDS standards and accessibility requirements.

This hands‑on role operates in governed environments where security, performance, and reliability are critical to service success. Hybrid working in the UK is supported.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, building and operating production software systems.
• Proficient in modern development standards, including CI/CD and code reviews.
• Understanding of information security principles and secure-by-default engineering.
• Experience with complex systems design and integration in large environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship software components end-to-end.
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code following modern standards.
• Operate services in production; triage and resolve incidents.
• Follow and improve engineering best-practice guidelines.
• Coach juniors and contribute to the engineering community.
• Participate in code reviews and architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with product, design and user research to shape what gets built.

Skills

Production design

CI/CD

Secure engineering

Systems design

On‑call support

Agile delivery

Tools

Scala

Play Framework

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Software Developer to design, build and maintain high‑quality software for UK government clients. You will join a multidisciplinary agile team, delivering user‑centred services that meet GDS standards and accessibility requirements.

This hands‑on role operates in governed environments where security, performance, and reliability are critical to service success. Hybrid working in the UK is supported.