Scala Developer
Summary
A Scala Developer role at SF Partners in Oxford Circus, Central London, focused on building backend services with Scala. Day-to-day work involves Akka/Play frameworks, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases, RESTful APIs, TDD/BDD testing, and Docker-based containerization.
Salary: £75,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements:- At least three years of commercial Scala programming experience
- Strong experience with frameworks such as Akka or Play
- Relational database experience, including PostgreSQL, and experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of unit testing, using tools such as Spec2 or ScalaTest
- Experience working in a TDD/BDD-driven environment
- Containerization experience, including Docker or Kubernetes
- Awareness of cloud technologies is useful
- A solid understanding of functional programming
- Build complex, highly scalable greenfield solutions used worldwide to deliver critical infrastructure
- Develop enterprise-level applications within our innovation arm
- ARM
- Akka
- Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- NoSQL
- PostgreSQL
- Scala
- TDD
- API
- CI/CD
- REST
More:
We are an international software house based in the UK, and this remote Scala Developer role is part of our innovation arm. Youll join a collaborative team in a continuous-improvement-focused environment, working within a mature estate with scope to develop skills in modern automation and containerization technologies. We offer long-term remote and flexible working, a starting salary of up to £85,000, company ownership shares, an electric company car scheme, flexible hours, two promotion and salary review opportunities each year, a physical and mental wellbeing program, a private pension, training and personal development budget and time, wellbeing protection, career progression opportunities, 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays with a holiday buy-and-sell scheme, and a choice of technology.
last updated 41 week of 2026