Lead Scala Engineer in City of London

Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £105,000|12.5% BONUS

We are delighted to be partnered with a global financial services organisation who are looking to hire an experienced senior software engineer to join their innovative team to work on exciting greenfield projects within financial services.

You will be joining a diverse, cross functional team who all share a passion and obsession for all things tech.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supply and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development
• Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the platform
• Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions
• Research and suggest for new projects for the Equities platform
• Resolve complex problems through in-depth evaluation of sophisticated architectures, business processes and industry standards.

Key Requirements:

• Advanced Scala programming (5+ years)
• Strong understanding of Scala including Akka (for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient applications), Play Framework (for web applications), Cats/Scalaz (for functional programming abstractions)
• Advanced knowledge of Domain driven Design and event architecture.

• Experience building and maintaining dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab.
• Experience of using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology
• Knowledge of using eventing and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka and MQ
• Experience with cloud (preferably AWS)
• Desire to learn, improve and innovate, with high development standards

No Sponsorship offered.

Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £105,000|12.5% BONUS

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