Senior Scala Engineer

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: Senior Scala Engineer
Location: Stratford, London (hybrid)
Rate: £620 per day(PAYE through FCSA Umbrella)
Duration:6 months
Clearance Required: SC required

Job Descriptions

As a Senior Scala Engineer in the AttRep Team you will define and shape the way we deliver the Front End Attribute Reputation services (APIs) to Digital services to provide attribute insights for fraud detection and prevention across client.

This work involves:
Help design a future vision for our Att Rep services, including consolidation, to allow us to provide a consistent and easy to use experience for users.
Consideration for delivering high-volume, high-availability and low-latency services
Improvement of our existing services
Reducing our maintenance efforts through incremental re-architecting - eg reducing the number of technologies that are required to support the pipeline & using managed services where appropriate.
Design and develop clean functioning, testable code on the Back End, write effective APIs, develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications with security and data protection settings
Collaborate with the AttRep product owner, business analyst, data engineers and the wider CIP teams to ideate software solutions

How we work:
We favour:
Breaking down a high-level problem as a team upfront and delivering the core value first
Delivering individual business benefits to production, rather than bundling tasks together
Collaboration, communication, regular pairing and thoughtful course-correction
Taking the time to write simple and easy to maintain code
Willingness to make and participate in improvements for the greater good of CIP
Working cross-discipline rather than adhering to tightly defined roles.

Knowledge & experience
Security clearance (SC-level)
API design
Data analysis
Databases
AWS suite experience
Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering and support
Skilled at returning services to good states in outage situations
Understands the importance of testing and automation
Working in a lean, agile environment
Working in a you build it you run it team
Experience coding in continuous integration context

Skills & technologies
Essential:
ScalaPlay or other MVC/Rest API frameworks
SQL
AWS Suite
Continuous Integration
Agile methodologies

Desirable:
Containerisation principles/Docker
Jenkins
Kibana
Grafana
Airflow

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.