Scala Developer

Salary: £37,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience designing, building, and operating production software systems using Scala and the Play Framework.
• Confidence with modern development practices, including Test-Driven Development using ScalaTest/Specs2, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and automated testing.
• Solid understanding of information security principles and secure-by-default engineering.
• Experience with systems design, RESTful API development, and microservices integration in complex environments.
• Comfort supporting services in production, including on-call participation, incident response, and setting up observability tools.
• A user-focused mindset and experience collaborating closely with designers and product colleagues.
• Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience working on high-volume transactional digital services, or strong evidence you can ramp quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience delivering digital services within UK central government or the wider public sector.
• Experience working with regulated public-sector, GDS, or financial-services environments.
• Open-source contributions to government engineering ecosystems.
• Active community-of-practice contribution, such as technical talks, blog posts, or internal Scala mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-performance software components that meet user needs end-to-end.
• Write clean, secure, and well-tested code in Scala, adhering to functional programming principles and modern development standards.
• Operate, maintain, and scale the services you build, identifying, triaging, and resolving production issues.
• Follow and help improve our internal engineering best-practice guidelines.
• Coach apprentices and junior developers, contributing actively to our engineering community.
• Conduct thorough peer code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions within your team.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, interaction designers, and user researchers to shape what gets built.

Technologies

• API
• AWS
• GitHub
• Grafana
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• MongoDB
• Play Framework
• Scala
• Security
• Splunk
• Terraform
• microservices
• Cloud
• JVM

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We are Scrumconnect Consulting, a multi-award-winning digital consultancy recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. In this hands-on contract role based in Newcastle with hybrid working, you will help us design, build, and maintain high-quality microservices and back-end systems using Scala and the Play Framework. You will work within multidisciplinary agile teams to deliver user-centred digital services that meet GDS standards and WCAG accessibility requirements, using technologies including MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Splunk, and Grafana. We value collaboration, creating value early, integrity, and commitment, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity drives innovation and better outcomes.