Scala Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience with Scala.
• Experience using the Play Framework.
• Experience developing RESTful microservices.
• Strong knowledge of unit and integration testing.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Cloud platform experience, preferably AWS.
• CI/CD and DevOps experience.
• Knowledge of application security principles.
• Experience with containerisation technologies.
• Public sector or large-scale enterprise project experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality applications using Scala and the Play Framework.
• Build and maintain cloud-based microservices.
• Deliver user stories within Agile Scrum teams.
• Write clean, well-tested code using TDD.
• Develop unit and integration tests.
• Participate in pair programming and code reviews.
• Support applications through deployment and production.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering practices.

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Play Framework
• Scala
• Security
• TDD
• microservices

More:

We are hiring a Scala Engineer for a 6-month contract in Telford with a hybrid working model of 2 days per week onsite and a day rate of £470 inside IR35. You will join a high-performing Agile team delivering a major government digital transformation programme, building secure, scalable cloud-based services that improve the way millions of people access essential public services. This is an opportunity to work with modern technologies, cloud-native architectures, and collaborative engineering teams while contributing to services used across the UK.

last updated 30 week of 2026