Senior Software Engineer - Scala

As a Senior Scala Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and developing highly scalable backend systems, influencing technical direction, and helping to shape the future of a rapidly growing engineering organisation.

Working alongside some of the industry's strongest engineers, you'll tackle complex distributed systems challenges, optimise performance at scale, and contribute to a culture that values innovation, ownership and technical excellence.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and building high-performance backend services using Scala
• Developing distributed systems capable of operating at significant scale
• Driving architecture decisions and influencing engineering best practice
• Collaborating with product, platform and infrastructure teams
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
• Identifying opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability and performance
• Participating in technical discussions and long-term platform strategy

Are you a Senior Scala Engineer who thrives on solving complex engineering challenges at scale?, I'm particularly interested in speaking with engineers who have experience working withinFAANG organisationsor similarly recognised high-scale technology companies, where engineering excellence, scalability and software craftsmanship are fundamental to success., * Strong commercial experience developing software with Scala

• Background building scalable, cloud-native applications and distributed systems
• Experience working within a FAANG organisation or another high-performing, large-scale technology environment
• Strong understanding of software architecture, microservices and event-driven systems
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Passion for engineering excellence and delivering high-quality software

• Salary up to£150,000
• Meaningful share options package
• Hybrid working model (2 days per week in Manchester)
• Opportunity to work on genuinely large-scale engineering challenges
• Modern technology stack and engineering-first culture
• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a financially secure, globally recognised business that combines the backing and stability of a billion-dollar organisation with the engineering culture and innovation mindset typically associated with leading technology companies.

If you're looking for a role where you'll be challenged technically, work alongside exceptional engineers and have genuine influence over large-scale systems, we'd love to hear from you.

I'm partnering with a highly successful US-owned technology business with annual revenues exceeding$1 billion, currently expanding its Manchester engineering function. This is a rare opportunity to join a genuinely high-performing engineering team building distributed systems that process vast amounts of data and power critical products used globally.