Senior Scala Engineer

Company: MRP Technology Ltd
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Location: London
Job Description:

  • ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED
  • Inside IR35
Senior Scala Engineer required to join a major organisation’s technology programme on a long-term engagement, working in a hybrid capacity from London with competitive rates.

Active SC clearance required.

You’ll join a specialist engineering team, developing secure, high-volume and low-latency APIs that support critical business services.

Key duties:
  • Design and develop robust, scalable and testable Back End APIs using Scala.
  • Help shape future architecture and consolidate existing services.
  • Improve existing systems and reduce technical maintenance through incremental re-architecting.
  • Develop and manage reliable databases and applications with strong security and data protection.
  • Design solutions for high-volume, high-availability and low-latency services.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Data Engineers and wider delivery teams.
  • Contribute to continuous integration, testing, automation and production support.
  • Investigate and resolve service issues and support applications during incidents.
  • Participate in an Agile, collaborative and cross-functional engineering environment.

Technical Skills
Strong experience with Scala, Play or other MVC/REST API frameworks, SQL, AWS, Continuous Integration and Agile methodologies is essential.
Experience with Docker/containerisation, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana or Airflow is desirable.

About You
  • Strong commercial experience developing Back End services and APIs using Scala.
  • Good understanding of API design, databases, data analysis and secure application development.
  • Experience working with AWS and continuous integration environments.
  • Understanding of SRE principles, monitoring and production support.
  • Comfortable working with high-volume, highly available services.
  • Proactive, collaborative and able to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Strong focus on clean, maintainable and testable code.
  • Comfortable working in a lean, Agile and “you build it, you run it” environment.
  • Active SC clearance is essential.

Open to candidates based in Chelmsford, Harlow, Cheshunt, Brentwood and Bishop Stortford.

Posted: September 11th, 2026