Senior Scala Engineer

Capgemini; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental Health Champions

Wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy

Job summary

Capgemini is looking for a Senior Scala Engineer to join their team across the United Kingdom, including Worthing. This position involves developing and maintaining Scala services and optimizing microservices. Candidates should have strong experience in functional programming, REST APIs, and database design. Capgemini emphasizes a hybrid working environment, promoting collaboration and continuous improvement among engineers. Join a company committed to inclusivity and well-being, helping to make lasting impacts on public services.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Scala services using Play and Akka.
• Write high-quality, tested code with TDD/BDD.
• Design and optimize microservices for performance and reliability.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

TDD/BDD

SBT

Containerization

Tools

ScalaTest

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Your locationYour locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.# Senior Scala EngineerBirmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester, Telford, WorthingCapgemini are recruiting highly skilled Lead and Senior Engineers to join their dynamic team, delivering solutions for a major public sector client. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful projects that impact millions of people, in an environment that values innovation and collaboration.Our mature Agile environment provides a supportive space to collaborate with specialists from other disciplines. You’ll be part of a culture that encourages continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.Our Senior Engineer, you’ll focus on delivering critical digital services from cradle to grave working on a variety of projects for wide reaching Public Services.**Hybrid working:** Your working location will vary depending on your role, personal needs, and business requirements. This will typically include a mix of company offices, client sites, and remote work from home. If your location is Telford or Worthing (please note the Worthing office will relocate to Brighton & Hove in the second half of 2026) you will be expected to work from the office between 40% and 70% of the time. For all other locations you need to be prepared to come into the Telford or Worthing office once to twice a month (Lead engineers more frequently). As we align closely with customer requirements—which may change over time—you will need to remain flexible. Please note that fully remote working (100% from home) is not permitted.## **Your role**• Develop and maintain Scala services using frameworks like Play, Akka, and functional programming principles. • Write high-quality, tested code with TDD/BDD and tools such as ScalaTest. • Design and optimise microservices for performance, scalability, and reliability. • Manage builds and deployments using SBT, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes). • Mentor junior engineers on Scala best practices and support their development. • Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with business needs. • Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.Our culture We’re looking for people who are learning focused, challenge the status quo and are constantly looking to shape their working environment to make it an exciting, fun and interesting place to work. Keeping things fresh is something we encourage in our working practices, but the culture of continuous improvement is equally as important in our technical approach to building and delivering modern digital services. Your knowledge and experience will be used to change the way we build solutions including utilising new tools and technologies to solve new problems or improve existing services. Working on our services means you’ll be part of a team, but you’ll also be a part of communities of interest. This means you’ll always have people on hand to share and discuss ideas and get help when needed. The engineering organisation is engineering led, supporting each other through coaching and mentoring, so if you want to change something it’s within your power to do so.## Your skills and experience• Strong professional experience with Scala and functional programming • Experience designing and consuming REST APIs; JSON validation/serialisation using Play JSON or Circe. • Designing for and querying relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. • Writing unit and integration tests using technology such as ScalaTest, Specs2 and Mockito while following TDD/BDD • Familiarity with SBT for build/CI/CD automation and GIT with branching strategies. • Solid understanding of web/HTTP, web security best practices, and performance considerations. • Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation.## **We are a Disability Confident Employer**Capgemini is proud to be a under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.## **Your security clearance**To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.## **Why you should consider Capgemini**Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.