MRP-Global
Senior Scala Engineer
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Senior Scala Engineer
Required to join a major organisation’s technology programme on a long-term engagement, working in a hybrid capacity from London with competitive rates.
Active SC clearance required.
You’ll join a specialist engineering team, developing secure, high-volume and low-latency APIs that support critical business services.
Key Duties
- Design and develop robust, scalable and testable backend APIs using Scala.
- Help shape future architecture and consolidate existing services.
- Improve existing systems and reduce technical maintenance through incremental re-architecting.
- Develop and manage reliable databases and applications with strong security and data protection.
- Design solutions for high-volume, high-availability and low-latency services.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Data Engineers and wider delivery teams.
- Contribute to continuous integration, testing, automation and production support.
- Investigate and resolve service issues and support applications during incidents.
- Participate in an Agile, collaborative and cross-functional engineering environment.
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Technical Skills
- Strong experience with Scala, Play or other MVC/REST API frameworks, SQL, AWS, Continuous Integration and Agile methodologies is essential.
- Experience with Docker/containerisation, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana or Airflow is desirable.
About You
- Strong commercial experience developing backend services and APIs using Scala.
- Good understanding of API design, databases, data analysis and secure application development.
- Experience working with AWS and continuous integration environments.
- Understanding of SRE principles, monitoring and production support.
- Comfortable working with high-volume, highly available services.
- Proactive, collaborative and able to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong focus on clean, maintainable and testable code.
- Comfortable working in a lean, Agile and “you build it, you run it” environment.
- Active SC clearance is essential.
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