Description
We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who require a Senior Scala Developer for one of their Clients.
Who you are
- You have a proven track record of your technical skills.
- You have 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience.
- You have at least one year experience writing Scala utilising the Play Framework, and prior experience in any JVM-based and functional language.
- You enjoy learning about the customer's pains and gains, and building products which solve real-world problems. You can work autonomously in a small cross-functional team and can communicate well with team members. Equally you are able to effectively contribute to technology decisions across multiple teams.
- You are firmly focussed on delivering business value and results to end-users. Along with this you have a commercial mindset, with demonstrated ability to make fact based trade offs.
- You have prior experience building greenfield products for unfamiliar industries and are familiar with the entire software development life cycle.
- You are disciplined about testing, quality assurance, and writing clear documentation (where relevant).
- You have experience with distributed systems.
- You can demonstrate a broad knowledge of available modern technologies and like tonexperiment with finding the best solution for specific tasks outside your core skill set.
- You ideally have previous experience within a Government Department that aligns itself with
- GDS standards, or are familiar with the standards that GDS outlines.
- You must be able to undertake and successfully gain SC level security clearance.
What you'll do
- You should be able to demonstrate prior professional experience of the following activities thatyou'll do:
- Make architectural and design decisions
- Design and create User Interfaces
- Design, create and/or troubleshoot REST APIs
- Microservice design and implementation
- Experience with implementing complex solutions involving Web Services, SOA.
- Develop and test your code
- Apply security best practices
- Review your peer's code (Github pull requests)
- Setup and maintain deployment pipelines (CircleCI, Github Actions) and processes
- Monitor and support your applications
- Support the product owner in sizing and prioritising work
- Keep a handle on technical debt, whilst shipping new features
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.