Senior Scala Engineer

eTeam Workforce Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 98,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

eTeam Workforce Limited is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer in Stratford, London (hybrid) to deliver backend APIs and data services for fraud detection. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure systems and collaborating with product and data teams across CIP to realise software solutions.

The position expects experience with Scala, API design, AWS, and data analysis, in a lean, agile environment, with an emphasis on maintainable code and incident response in outages.

Qualifications

• SC-level security clearance is required.
• Experience in API design and data analysis.
• Knowledge of databases and AWS services.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD and testing in CI environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and shape the future of Att Rep services, delivering a consistent and easy-to-use API experience for users.
• Design for high-volume, high-availability, and low-latency services.
• Improve and re-architect existing services to reduce maintenance.
• Develop backend code and APIs, ensuring secure data handling and protection.
• Collaborate with product owners, data engineers and CIP teams to ideate software solutions.

Skills

SC clearance

Scala

API design

AWS

SQL

CI/CD

Agile

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Kibana

Grafana

Airflow

Job description

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: Senior Scala Engineer
Location: Stratford, London (hybrid)
Rate: £620 per day(PAYE through FCSA Umbrella)
Duration:6 months
Clearance Required: SC required

Job Descriptions

As a Senior Scala Engineer in the AttRep Team you will define and shape the way we deliver the Front End Attribute Reputation services (APIs) to Digital services to provide attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention across client.

This work involves:

• Help design a future vision for our Att Rep services, 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 - eg reducing the number of technologies that are required to support the pipeline & 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 AttRep product owner, business analyst, data engineers and the wider CIP teams to ideate software solutions

How we work:

We favour:

• 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:

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

Desirable:

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