Company: Areti Group | B Corp™
Location: Leeds
Job Description:
Are you a hands-on Scala leader who likes building things that matter at national scale? We’re looking for a Lead Scala Developer to lead a talented team on a high-profile digital programme for a major UK public sector organisation. The services you build will be used by millions of people.
The Essentials
- Location: Hybrid, Leeds or Newcastle (2 days in the office)
- Travel: Monthly travel likely, with an overnight stay if you’re not local
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading the design and build of full-stack solutions in Scala, across both front end and back end
- Making sure best practice in secure coding, testing and deployment runs through the whole development lifecycle
- Giving hands‑on technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to a team of developers
- Driving architecture discussions and shaping high-level technical decisions
- Running code reviews and giving constructive feedback that improves quality and maintainability
- Working with DevOps, QA and cross‑functional teams to deliver robust, scalable and secure solutions
- Explaining complex technical ideas clearly to stakeholders and non-technical colleagues
- Contributing to engineering craft communities and sharing best practice and thought leadership
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience as a Lead Developer or in a similar leadership role, with a strong Scala background
- Strong skills in Scala and functional programming principles
- Hands‑on experience building microservices with the Play Framework
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git and modern tools such as IntelliJ, VS Code and sbt
- Essential: experience working in a macOS or Linux environment
- A strong understanding of Agile methods and practices
- A track record of influencing architecture decisions across large codebases
- Excellent problem‑solving skills, strategic thinking and strong communication
- Lead engineering on services that make a real difference to the public
- Work at real scale, with modern tooling and a strong engineering culture
- Be part of a collaborative, craft‑focused community that values your expertise
- Get a competitive day rate and a flexible hybrid working pattern
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Posted: October 22nd, 2026