Senior Scala Engineer

Smartedge Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartedge Solutions Ltd is seeking a senior technical professional to design robust REST APIs, analyse data, and maintain scalable databases within an AWS-based, lean and agile environment. You will work in a cross-disciplinary team, focusing on building resilient services, automation, and rapid delivery of core value.

The role requires SC-level security clearance, strong API and CI/CD experience, and a proactive approach to incident response and reliability engineering in production systems.

Qualifications

• SC-level security clearance
• Experience designing REST APIs
• Data analysis and database skills
• AWS suite experience
• Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering
• Ability to restore services after outages
• Testing and automation mindset
• Lean, agile environment experience
• CI context experience

Responsibilities

• Break down high-level problems as a team and deliver core value first
• Deliver production-focused benefits rather than bundled tasks
• Collaborate, communicate, pair program and course-correct
• Write simple, maintainable code
• Participate in improvements for the greater good
• Work cross-discipline rather than strict role boundaries

Skills

Security clearance

API design

Data analysis

Databases

AWS

SRE awareness

Outage recovery

Testing & automation

Lean, agile

CI

Tools

Scala

Play framework

SQL

CI/CD

Job description

Breaking down a high-level problem as a team upfront and delivering the core value first
Delivering individual business benefits to production, rather than bundling tasks together
Collaboration, communication, regular pairing and thoughtful course-correction
Taking the time to write simple and easy to maintain code
Willingness to make and participate in improvements for the greater good of CIP
Working cross-discipline rather than adhering to tightly defined roles.

Knowledge & 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

Skills & technologies
Essential:

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

Desirable:
Containerisation principles/Docker
Jenkins
Kibana
Grafana
Airflow