Scala Engineer

• We will define and shape how we deliver APIs to digital services.
• We will provide attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention across the department.
• We will work on a front-end digital service.
• We will consolidate services to provide a consistent and easy-to-use experience for users.
• We will consider and deliver high-volume, high-availability, and low-latency services.
• We will improve our existing services.
• We will reduce maintenance efforts through incremental re-architecting.
• We will reduce the number of technologies required to support the pipeline.
• We will use managed services where appropriate.
• We will design and develop clean, functioning, testable back-end code.
• We will write effective APIs.
• We will develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications with security and data protection settings.
• We will collaborate with the product owner, business analyst, data engineers, and wider teams to ideate software solutions.

Technologies:

• Airflow
• API
• AWS
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• MVC
• Product Owner
• REST
• SQL
• Scala
• Security
• Cloud, We are supporting our Central Government client on a hybrid London engagement, with two days per week onsite. This is an inside IR35 opportunity at £600 per day. Our team is looking for a Senior Scala Engineer to help shape a front-end digital service and improve the delivery of APIs for digital services, with a focus on fraud detection and prevention. We work in a lean, agile, collaborative environment and value testing, automation, and practical engineering that reduces operational complexity.

• We require active SC-level security clearance.
• We require experience with API design.
• We require data analysis experience.
• We require database experience.
• We require experience with the AWS suite.
• We require awareness of Site Reliability Engineering and support.
• We require experience restoring services to a good state during outage situations.
• We require an understanding of the importance of testing and automation.
• We require experience working in a lean, agile environment.
• We require experience working in a you build it, you run it team.
• We require experience coding in a continuous integration context.
• We require skills and experience with Scala.
• We require experience with Play or other MVC/REST API frameworks.
• We require experience with SQL.
• We require experience with AWS Suite.
• We require experience with Continuous Integration.
• We require experience with Agile methodologies.
• We consider containerisation principles, Docker, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, and Airflow desirable.