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# Scala Software Engineer

- **Company:** scrumconnect ltd
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Cyber Security, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Github, MongoDB, Play Framework, Scrum Methodology, Scala (Programming Language), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Grafana, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-92B57F865AFD5DD2EA/

## About the Role

You'll be working with: Scala, Play Framework, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Splunk, Grafana.

We're looking for:

 - Strong experience designing, building and operating production software systems

 - Confident with modern development standards (test-driven development, continuous integration/continuous deployment, code review)

 - Understanding of information security principles and secure-by-default engineering

 - Experience with systems design and integration in complex environments

 - Comfortable supporting services in production - on-call participation, incident response, observability

 - User-focused mindset and experience collaborating with designers and product colleagues

 - Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models (Scrum, Kanban)

 - Experience working on high-volume transactional digital services (or strong evidence you can ramp quickly)

 - Experience delivering digital services within UK central government or the wider public sector

Desirable experience

 - Experience with regulated public-sector or financial-services environments

 - Open-source contributions to government engineering ecosystems

 - Active community-of-practice contribution (talks, blog posts, internal teaching)

## Description

We are looking for a Software Developer to design, build, and maintain high-quality software to help UK government clients solve problems and deliver value for citizens and the public sector. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, delivering user-centred digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and accessibility requirements.

This is a hands-on technical role operating within structured and governed environments where security, performance, accessibility, and reliability are critical to service success.

Key responsibilities

 - Build and ship software components that meet user needs end-to-end

 - Write clean, secure, well-tested code that follows modern development standards

 - Operate the services you build - identify, triage and resolve production issues

 - Follow and help improve engineering best-practice guidelines

 - Coach apprentices and junior developers and contribute to Scrumconnect's engineering community

 - Conduct code reviews and contribute to architectural decisions in your team

 - Collaborate closely with product, design and user research to shape what gets built


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