Job Description
We are seeking experienced Scala/Play Developers to support delivery of a major UK government digital transformation programme.
The role will involve designing, developing, testing and supporting Scala-based microservices within established multidisciplinary Agile teams. Contractors will work across the full development life cycle, from technical design and implementation through to deployment, monitoring and live-service support.
Key skills
- Strong commercial Scala development experience
- Play Framework
- Microservices development
- Unit and integration testing
- TDD
- CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Agile delivery
- Application design and architecture
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability
Desirable
- Cloud infrastructure experience
- Application security
- Automated deployment and monitoring
- High-availability digital services
- Large-scale public sector transformation experience
Responsibilities include
- Delivering Scala/Play microservices against agreed requirements
- Producing clean, maintainable and well-tested code
- Contributing to technical design and architecture
- Supporting deployment, monitoring and live services
- Working collaboratively with engineering and multidisciplinary delivery teams
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for technical improvement
- Sharing knowledge and contributing to engineering standards and best practice