Scala Engineer SC Cleared London

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Active SC clearance
• Strong Scala development experience
• Experience with Play Framework or similar MVC/REST API frameworks
• SQL expertise
• AWS experience
• API design experience
• Continuous Integration experience
• Strong understanding of testing and automation
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments
• Experience within a you build it, you run it operating model
• Knowledge of data analysis and database technologies
• Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering principles
• Experience restoring services during outage situations
• Docker and containerisation principles
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• Grafana
• Airflow

Responsibilities:

• Help define the future vision and consolidation strategy for Attribute Reputation services
• Design and develop scalable, secure and testable backend solutions
• Build and enhance REST APIs that deliver attribute insights to digital services
• Improve existing services and reduce maintenance overhead through incremental re-architecting
• Support the adoption of managed services and simplified technology stacks where appropriate
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, data engineers and wider teams to develop effective solutions
• Contribute to database design and application development with strong security and data protection principles
• Support operational excellence through monitoring, reliability and incident resolution
• Work within a continuous integration environment and contribute to automation and testing practices

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Backend
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• MVC
• Play Framework
• REST
• SQL
• Scala
• Security
• Cloud
• Airflow

More:

We are joining a major government fraud detection and prevention programme focused on protecting taxpayer data and tackling organised repayment fraud. Our Attribute Reputation team delivers insights that help identify suspicious activity by analysing large volumes of transactional data and deriving risk scores from historical patterns. We work closely with data product teams and digital services to deliver secure, scalable and user-focused solutions. This is a 6-month hybrid contract based in Stratford, London, with a competitive rate of £620 per day and SC clearance required. The role is inside IR35 and offers the opportunity to contribute to large-scale fraud prevention and data-driven services.

last updated 37 week of 2026