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# Scala Engineer

- **Company:** ETeam Inc
- **Location:** Telford, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £161,200
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Live Connect (Windows), Play Framework, Software Engineering, Software Security, Software Troubleshooting, Deployment Automation, Microservices
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-C0B265533BECABDF3B/

## About the Role

* Strong commercial Scala development experience
 * Play Framework
 * Microservices development
 * Unit and integration testing
 * TDD
 * CI/CD and DevOps practices
 * Agile delivery
 * Application design and architecture
 * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability

Desirable:

 * Cloud infrastructure experience
 * Application security
 * Automated deployment and monitoring
 * High-availability digital services
 * Large-scale public sector transformation experience

## Description

* We are seeking experienced Scala/Play Developers to support delivery of a major UK government digital transformation programme.
 * The role will involve designing, developing, testing and supporting Scala-based microservices within established multidisciplinary Agile teams. Contractors will work across the full development life cycle, from technical design and implementation through to deployment, monitoring and live-service support., * Delivering Scala/Play microservices against agreed requirements
 * Producing clean, maintainable and well-tested code
 * Contributing to technical design and architecture
 * Supporting deployment, monitoring and live services
 * Working collaboratively with engineering and multidisciplinary delivery teams
 * Identifying and implementing opportunities for technical improvement
 * Sharing knowledge and contributing to engineering standards and best practice