Senior Scala Engineer in Manchester

Capgemini are recruiting highly skilled Lead and Senior Engineers to join their dynamic team, delivering solutions for a major public sector client. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful projects that impact millions of people, in an environment that values innovation and collaboration.

Our mature Agile environment provides a supportive space to collaborate with specialists from other disciplines. You’ll be part of a culture that encourages continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence. Our Senior Engineer will focus on delivering critical digital services from cradle to grave, working on a variety of projects for wide reaching Public Services.

Hybrid working: Your working location will vary depending on your role, personal needs, and business requirements. This will typically include a mix of company offices, client sites, and remote work from home. If your location is Telford or Worthing (note: Worthing office will relocate to Brighton & Hove in the second half of 2026) you will be expected to work from the office between 40% and 70% of the time. For all other locations you need to be prepared to come into the Telford or Worthing office once to twice a month (Lead engineers more frequently). As we align closely with customer requirements—which may change over time—you will need to remain flexible. Please note that fully remote working (100% from home) is not permitted.

Your role:

• Develop and maintain Scala services using frameworks like Play, Akka, and functional programming principles.
• Write high-quality, tested code with TDD/BDD and tools such as ScalaTest.
• Design and optimise microservices for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage builds and deployments using SBT, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Mentor junior engineers on Scala best practices and support their development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with business needs.
• Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

Our culture: We’re looking for people who are learning focused, challenge the status quo and are constantly looking to shape their working environment to make it an exciting, fun and interesting place to work. Keeping things fresh is important, but the culture of continuous improvement is equally as important in our technical approach to building and delivering modern digital services. Your knowledge and experience will be used to change the way we build solutions including utilising new tools and technologies to solve new problems or improve existing services. You’ll be part of communities of interest and supported by an engineering-led organisation that encourages coaching and mentoring.

Your Skills And Experience:

• Strong professional experience with Scala and functional programming.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs; JSON validation/serialisation using Play JSON or Circe.
• Designing for and querying relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Writing unit and integration tests using ScalaTest, Specs2 and Mockito while following TDD/BDD.
• Familiarity with SBT for build/CI/CD automation and GIT with branching strategies.
• Solid understanding of web/HTTP, web security best practices, and performance considerations.
• Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance: To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you? You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for achieving our organisational ambitions. We have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy are available to support you.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and you’ll gain experiences and connections to shape your future by learning from each other, sharing knowledge, and pushing yourself to do better. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries, with over 55 years of heritage. Capgemini delivers end-to-end services and solutions, leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, fueled by capabilities in AI, cloud and data, and a strong partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.