🌳Hiring: Lead Scala Developer | £460/day (Inside IR35) | Hybrid – Leeds or Newcastle🌳

🌳 Hiring: Lead Scala Developer | £460/day (Inside IR35) | Hybrid – Leeds or Newcastle 🌳

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

🌳 Rate: £460 per day (Inside IR35)

🌳 Location: Hybrid, Leeds or Newcastle (2 days in the office)

🌳 Travel: Monthly travel likely, with an overnight stay if you’re not local

🌳 Clearance: BPSS

🚀 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

✨ Why Join?

🌳 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

👉 Interested? Apply now or send me a DM to find out more. If you know someone who’d be a great fit, please tag them or share this post! 🌳

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