Scala Data Engineer - Contract - London

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• We require active SC Clearance.
• We seek an experienced Senior Scala Data Engineer.
• Scala experience is required.
• Experience with Play Framework or other MVC/REST API frameworks is required.
• SQL and database experience is required.
• AWS experience is required.
• Experience with Continuous Integration is required.
• Agile methodology experience is required.
• Experience in API design and development is required.
• Experience with testing and automation is required.
• Production support or SRE awareness is required.
• Experience with Jenkins, Kibana, Airflow, Docker, containerisation, or Grafana would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• We design and develop scalable, secure, and low-latency backend services.
• We develop clean, testable Scala code and REST APIs.
• We work with databases and AWS services.
• We improve and modernise existing applications and services.
• We collaborate with product owners, business analysts, and data engineers.
• We support production services and contribute to incident resolution.
• We work within an Agile and Continuous Integration environment.

Technologies:

• Airflow
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• MVC
• Play Framework
• REST
• SQL
• Scala
• Cloud
• Security

More:

We are seeking a Senior Scala Data Engineer for a 6-month contract in London on a hybrid working basis, with a day rate of £530 to £580 inside IR35. You will join a team developing secure, high-volume, highly available backend services and APIs that support fraud detection and data integrity. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 40 week of 2026