Senior Scala & Play Microservices Engineer (Hybrid)

Scrumconnect Consulting; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in Newcastle is seeking a Senior Scala/JVM Software Developer to design, build, and maintain microservices using Scala and the Play Framework, aligning with GDS standards. Working as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, you will deliver secure, high-quality digital services for UK government clients.

The role emphasizes production reliability, on-call readiness, and collaboration with product and design teams in a hybrid working environment, with a 6-month duration.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience designing, building, and operating production software systems using Scala and the Play Framework.
• Experience with modern development practices (Test-Driven Development using ScalaTest/Specs2, CI/CD, and automated testing).
• Solid understanding of information security principles and secure-by-default engineering.
• Experience with systems design, RESTful API development, and microservices integration in complex environments.
• Comfort supporting services in production including on-call participation, incident response, and setting up observability tools.
• A user-focused mindset and experience collaborating closely with designers and product colleagues.
• Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience delivering digital services within UK central government or the wider public sector.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-performance software components that meet user needs end-to-end.
• Write clean, secure, and well-tested code in Scala, adhering to functional programming principles and modern development standards.
• Operate, maintain, and scale the services you build identifying, triaging, and resolving production issues.
• Follow and help improve internal engineering best-practice guidelines.
• Coach apprentices and junior developers, contributing actively to Scrumconnect's engineering community.
• Conduct thorough peer code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions within your team.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, interaction designers, and user researchers to shape what gets built.

Skills

Scala

Play Framework

Tools

MongoDB

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in Newcastle is seeking a Senior Scala/JVM Software Developer to design, build, and maintain microservices using Scala and the Play Framework, aligning with GDS standards. Working as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, you will deliver secure, high-quality digital services for UK government clients.

The role emphasizes production reliability, on-call readiness, and collaboration with product and design teams in a hybrid working environment, with a 6-month duration.