Senior Software Engineer (Scala)

DigitalGenius; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-driven AI firm in London is seeking an experienced software engineer to enhance its product. The role involves building and optimizing microservices, designing API architecture, and integrating third-party systems. Candidates must have extensive Scala experience and a solid understanding of SQL databases. Offer includes competitive salary and generous benefits like a fitness stipend and vacation time.

Benefits

Start Up Culture

Competitive Salary

Generous Vacation time

Quarterly Team Events

Monthly Fitness stipend

Birthday Day Off

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Scala in a professional environment.
• Experience with functional programming libraries.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Build microservices for the no-code platform and admin console.
• Design maintainable and scalable architecture for APIs.
• Integrate with third-party systems.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

SQL

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Docker

AWS

HTTP REST APIs

microservices architecture

Git

Job description

Company:

At DigitalGenius (DG), we are using AI Agents to transform customer experience for ecommerce brands. With a proprietary approach to agentic AI, we have a unique opportunity to become the undisputed leader in our industry. We’re looking for excellent candidates to join our dedicated, thoughtful, and hardworking team to help us achieve that goal. We are a global company with offices in London, New York, and people across the world.

Our customers include some of the biggest names in retail including On, Rapha, Air Up, Holland & Barrett, AllSaints, Honeylove, and Clarins.

Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help us build our product. You will be working on the platform and backend services of the product and also the middle layer that sits between third party customer support tools and our proprietary AI platform. We value autonomy, excellence, pragmatism and impact. Responsibilities include:

• Building microservices for our no-code platform, analytics, admin console, data management functionality and others
• Designing and implementing maintainable and scalable architecture for consuming and providing APIs
• Integrating with 3rd party systems

Required Experience:

• Scala (4+ years of real, hands-on experience in Scala in a professional environment)
• Functional programming and hands-on experience with functional programming libraries
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of Terraform (real, hands-on experience), Docker, AWS
• HTTP REST APIs
• Experience building and deploying microservices-based architectures
• SQL and NoSQL DBs
• Git

Some Scala libraries we use—mostly Typelevel stack backend:

• http4s, Circe, Slick
• Monix, FS2, Cats Effect
• Cats

Benefits:

• Start Up Culture
• Competitive Salary
• Generous Vacation time
• Quarterly Team Events/Perks
• Monthly Fitness stipend of $210 or Third Space Gym Membership
• Birthday Day Off

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.