Senior Backend Engineer

Scala Developer London Hybrid - at least once a week in Central London Up to £85,000 DOE + Regular Pay Reviews + Healthcare + Life Insurance + Benefits Excellent opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong Scala and functional programming experience to join a small, highly technical team offering broad ownership, autonomy, regular pay reviews, and the chance to influence backend architecture and technical direction. This company are pioneers within a specialist technology-led insurance market. Having been acquired by a larger US-based organisation impressed by their product, platform, and technical capability, they are now looking to grow their permanent engineering team as they continue scaling their systems and improving the reliability, maintainability, and operability of their platform. In this role you will work across backend Scala development, architecture, infrastructure, APIs, data flows, and production systems supporting areas such as broker-facing products, pricing and underwriting workflows, claims processes, internal tooling, automation, and operational systems. You'll work closely with frontend, product, underwriting, claims, operations, and broker success teams, helping turn complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions. The ideal candidate will be a Backend Engineer with strong commercial Scala experience and a good understanding of functional programming principles. You...