Senior Scala Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Scala Engineer: Delivering critical digital services for a major public sector client, focusing on developing and maintaining Scala services using frameworks like Play and Akka. Focus on optimizing microservices for performance, scalability, and reliability, and ensuring operational excellence through monitoring and troubleshooting.

Location: Your working location will vary depending on your role, personal needs, and business requirements. If your location is Telford or Worthing you will be expected to work from the office between 40% and 70% of the time. For all other locations you need to be prepared to come into the Telford or Worthing office once to twice a month. Fully remote working (100% from home) is not permitted. To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years.

Company

hirify.global is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain Scala services using frameworks like Play, Akka, and functional programming principles.
• Write high-quality, tested code with TDD/BDD and tools such as ScalaTest.
• Design and optimise microservices for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage builds and deployments using SBT, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Mentor junior engineers on Scala best practices and support their development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with business needs.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs; JSON validation/serialisation using Play JSON or Circe.
• Designing for and querying relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Writing unit and integration tests using technology such as ScalaTest, Specs2 and Mockito while following TDD/BDD.
• Familiarity with SBT for build/CI/CD automation and GIT with branching strategies.
• Solid understanding of web/HTTP, web security best practices, and performance considerations.

Culture & Benefits

• Join an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024.
• Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.
• Trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas.
• Invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.