Senior Scala Engineer: Build, Run & Scale in CI/CD

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

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.